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xAI launches an API for “grok-beta” priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens; it is unclear which AI model “grok-beta” might be (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 AI

In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-19 WordPress California

Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-19 Microsoft

Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 AI

Abel, founded by Daniel Francis, or @growing_daniel, to build AI that uses body cam footage and dispatch call data to fill out police reports, raised a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 AI

Google adds an option for NotebookLM users to customize audio summaries, launches a NotebookLM Business pilot, and says 80K+ organizations use the tool (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Google

On Apple Pay's 10th anniversary, Apple adds support for Klarna in the US and UK and plans to expand installment loan options and add reward redemptions (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Apple Apple Pay

Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after raising its bid to $7.2B; Squarespace sells restaurant reservation service Tock to Amex for $400M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Equity

Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Startup

Apple is expanding Apple Business Connect to let businesses, including those without a physical location, manage their presence in Mail, Phone, and Tap to Pay (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Apple

Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 AI

The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17

Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 CISO

Xscape, which develops data center interconnects using silicon photonics, raised a $44M Series A led by IAG Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $57M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16

Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Toyota

Analytics software provider Amplitude acquires Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly called CommandBar that raised $23.8M, a source says for $45M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Customer service AI startup Neuron7 raised a $44M Series B led by Smith Point Capital, and says it had 300% growth in ARR in 2023 and 65 full-time employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Instagram enhances its profile sharing QR codes with a “profile card”, showing profile info on the front and, using a flip animation, a QR code on the back (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Instagram

Spotify starts rolling out music videos in beta for Premium subscribers in 85 additional markets, after introducing the feature in 12 markets earlier in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 Spotify

Scope3, which makes tools to monitor the carbon footprint of digital ads, raised $25M led by GV to expand into tools for tracking the environmental cost of AI (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

Numeric, which wants to use AI to automate accounting tasks, raised a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, five months after raising a $10M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the past year; it launched the marketplace in October 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 LinkedIn Freelance

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 Tesla Elon Musk

Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$59M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI Instagram

Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 WordPress

Florida-based data broker National Public Data, which was hacked and lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and more earlier in 2024, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15

The Biden-Harris administration launches a Reddit White House account for news and info about federal government work; first posts are about Hurricane Helene (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-9 Reddit Hurricane

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