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Roblox will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, ID verification, and parental consent (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4

Google rolls out new Android and Pixel features: Material 3 Expressive design for Pixel 6 and newer models, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Android Google

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery” (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-3 AI

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-3 WordPress AI

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-2 Europe Interview

Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-2 AI Tokyo

WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of “specific targeted users” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30 IOS Apple WhatsApp

Meta says it'll update AI chatbot rules to prevent inappropriate chats with teens and let teens access only AI characters that promote education and creativity (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30 AI chatbot Education

Mastodon says it does not “have the means to apply age verification” to its services and it's up to server admins to observe local laws in places they operate (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30

Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29 India Google AI Intelligence

Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 AI

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 Google AI

Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Browser Chrome

YouTube rolls out Hype, which lets users boost creators with under 500K subscribers via a hype button that gives videos points, in the US and 38 other countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 YouTube

Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Google

Google says NotebookLM's Video Overviews now support 80 languages, and Audio Overviews now provide more detailed non-English summaries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-26 Google

xAI releases the weights of Grok 2 on Hugging Face, under the Grok 2 Community License Agreement; Musk says Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-25

OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-24 Equity

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including “Taste Match” playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23 YouTube Spotify

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

X removes the ability for free-tier developers to like posts and follow users via its API to “protect the platform from spam, bots, and manipulative activities” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 India Ban

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

Anthropic announces a subscription offering that adds Claude Code to Enterprise and Team plans; the tool was previously available only via individual accounts (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21

Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions across apps, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google AI

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with an Actua 360 curved display and emergency satellite communication, starting at $349 from October 9 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

Google unveils a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, rolling out as a preview in October for Fitbit Premium users in the redesigned Fitbit app (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

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