Articles from techcrunch.com

Articles from techcrunch.com

Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model Flux1.1 Pro (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-4

Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of downloaded songs that users recently listened to, available automatically for Premium users (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-3 Spotify

Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-3

WP Engine files a lawsuit in California against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-3 WordPress California

A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enforcing AB 2839 on election deepfakes, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 17 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-3 California

Livestream marketplace Whatnot says its GMV passed $2B+ in 2024 and its top 500 sellers each sold $1M+; 66% of its sellers earn more than $10,000 per month (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-3

How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii's death registration system to fake his own death (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 Hacker FBI

Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 AI Canada

Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by a16z, valuing it at ~$350M; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 AI

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 Google

Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2

OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2

Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 Microsoft

Microsoft to pay pubs for content used by Copilot Daily, a new assistant providing a spoken summary of current events, signs up Reuters, FT, Axel Springer, more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 Microsoft

Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to users in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-2 Google Microsoft AI

Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Google Samsung AI Lenovo

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup

YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 AI

Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup AI Netflix

Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-30

Kaspersky confirms that it has replaced the antivirus software on its US customers' computers with software called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-28 U.S.

A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Energy Startup AI

Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27

Google updates its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM to let users get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and create sharable AI audio discussions (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Google AI YouTube

The Tor Project merges with Tails, a portable Linux-based OS focused on user privacy and anonymity; Tails says it had “outgrown its existing structure” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Linux

Sources: Peak XV, the largest India-focused VC fund, has realized ~$1.2B in exits since its Sequoia separation in June 2023, selling stakes in ~12 companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 India

A look at some exciting startups from Day 1 of YC's AI-heavy S24 Demo Day, including estate planning startup Elayne and clinical trial startup Baseline (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup AI

Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Mobile Tokyo

OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26

Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Android

Previous Page Next Page