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Bluesky addresses how it approaches trust and safety concerns on the platform, including piloting initiatives to deal with bad actors, abuse, and spam (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-19

SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a social network, is filled entirely with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-19 IOS

YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and six-second clips (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-19 Google AI YouTube

Apple says Apple Intelligence will support German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and other languages in 2025, and is in talks with the EU and China (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 China Germany Italy Korea Apple Vietnam Intelligence

Amazon names Samir Kumar as the new head of its India consumer business, a month after his predecessor Manish Tiwary's sudden exit, as competition intensifies (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 India Amazon

NYC-based GreenLite, which aims to standardize the construction permitting process across multiple jurisdictions, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Craft Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18

Discord says it is beginning to roll out end-to-end encryption to voice and video chats in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18

Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 Mozilla

Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract management service that had raised $155.6M in capital and debt (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 AI

Snap debuts a tool to let creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundational video models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 AI

IBM acquires Kubecost, a FinOps startup launched in 2019 that helps companies monitor and optimize Kubernetes clusters; Kubecost had raised $30M+ in funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 IBM Startup

Google plans to flag AI-generated images that have C2PA metadata on Search, Google Lens, and Circle to Search in the “about this image” box, within a few months (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 Google AI

Armenian startup EasyDMARC, which uses the DMARC standard to simplify email security and authentication, raised a $20M Series A led by Radian Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 Startup

German grocery delivery app Flink raised $115M in equity and $35M in debt, sources say at a valuation just under $1B; Flink has raised $1.5B+, per PitchBook (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 Germany Equity

11xAI, which builds AI bots that help automate end-to-end workflows, raised a $24M Series A led by Benchmark and says it is nearing ARR of $10M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 AI

The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 Samsung Apple

Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered business coaching and performance analytics services, raised a $22.5M Series A led by PJC (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-15 AI

A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 China AI

Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts for kids under 13 on family plans in select markets, including Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 New Zealand Sweden Spotify

Meta restarts efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its UK users, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 Facebook AI Instagram

Apple to allow iPad users in the EU to install alternative app stores, starting with iPadOS 18 launch on September 16 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Apple iPad

In a provisional ruling, the CMA says Vodafone and Three's planned $19B merger could lead to higher prices, diminished service, and reduced investment in the UK (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13

The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to fight AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Microsoft AI Adobe

At an Acquired podcast event, Zuckerberg said he's done with apologizing and his biggest mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Zuckerberg

OpenAI claims that in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, o1 correctly solved 83% of the problems, while GPT-4o solved only 13% (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Mathematics

A hacker says he tricked ChatGPT into giving detailed instructions to make a fertilizer bomb, by getting it to “play a game” and create a sci-fi fantasy world (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Hacker

The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Apple

Meta, TikTok and Snap pledge to participate in program to combat suicide and self-harm content (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13

Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage their data to comply with regulations, raised $40M at a ~$150M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU users for training foundational AI models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 Google AI Ireland GDPR

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