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OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17

Reddit announces that it is expanding its Google Gemini-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Germany France Italy Google Spain Reddit

Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Mobile chatbot

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Amazon

Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 AI

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 AI

Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 India Startup

Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 AI Battery Insurance

Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 AI

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16

X plans to show new info about accounts, including their creation date and which country they are based in, “starting next week” on select X employees' profiles (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-15 Netflix Spotify

Google plans to invest $15B over five years in India to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; Google has 14K staff in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-14 India Google AI

Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December 2024, and has sold 5.5M smart rings total (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-14

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-14 AI chatbot California

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-11 Android Google Browser Chrome

NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-11 India

Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, raised $30M at a $400M valuation, bringing its total raised to $74M (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-11 AI

Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from “dozens” of organizations since at least July 10 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-10 Google Oracle

Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-10 AI

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-10

OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-9 Malaysia Philippines Vietnam

Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8 India

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8

AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8 Australia Japan Brazil

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AI

OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AI

Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers “have built with OpenAI”, and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AMD

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