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Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

An interview with Phillip Koskinas, the head of anti-cheat at Riot Games, on the various strategies the company employs to combat cheaters and cheat developers (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Interview

Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an “AI scientist”, launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI Instagram

MoviePass launches Mogul, a daily fantasy sports-inspired, blockchain-based platform for movie buffs, and says over 400K people have signed up for early access (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Blockchain

Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Data integration company Fivetran acquires Census, which helps companies move data out of databases and into operational tools and was valued at $630M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023 (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Facebook WhatsApp Zuckerberg

Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for edge app developers (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Microsoft

Gruve.ai, which aims to change the traditional IT consultancy model by using AI agents to improve enterprise margins, raised a $20M Series A led by Mayfield (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI

JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI

Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn specific phrases in a new language, sound less formal, and more (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Google AI

A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Google Amazon AI chatbot

AWS launches Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos, and is priced at $2.50/1M input tokens and $12.50/1M output tokens, available in Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 350M MAUs, having added 30M in Q1 2025, compared to 20M in Q4 2024 (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago 4Q Zuckerberg

Nuvo, a B2B startup that scales trade partnerships by streamlining credit approvals and more, raised a $34M Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Startup

SEC filing: Intel EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell is resigning “in order to pursue another career opportunity” after joining in February 2022 (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Intel Career

Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

Kintsugi, which uses AI to help companies automate their sales tax compliance, raised $18M at a $150M post-money valuation, up from $80M in November 2024 (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Tax AI

AI legal analysis startup Supio, which focuses on personal injury law across 114+ case types, raised $60M led by Sapphire, taking its total funding to $91M (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Startup AI

Miami-based Cast, which optimizes AI and other workloads via automation, raised a $108M Series C led by G2 and Vision Fund 2, sources say at a $900M valuation (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Microsoft AI

An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago India

Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Google

The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times, up from 1B downloads in March and 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI

Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI

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