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OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users, letting them share their screen or video from phone cameras with ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13

Gigs, which helps companies become mobile virtual network operators, raised a $73M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, after a $20M Series A in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13 Mobile

Zürich-based robotics startup Anybotics raised a $60M Series B extension, taking the round, announced in May 2023, to $110M and its total funding to $130M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13 Startup Robot

Berlin-based Upvest, which offers an API for stock trading and other financial services to N26, Revolut, and others, raised a €100M Series C led by Hedosophia (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Germany

Microsoft says Russia-backed hacking group Secret Blizzard targeted Ukraine's military using other cybercriminals' tools, in order to make attribution harder (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Russia Microsoft Ukraine

Montreal-based Flare, a threat exposure management startup that develops tech to thwart info-stealer malware, raised a $30M Series B led by Base10 Partners (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Startup

NeuBird, which is using generative AI to automate IT site reliability operations, raised a $22.5M seed extension led by M12, following a $22M seed in April (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 AI

OpenAI says ChatGPT and its developer-facing API have been partially recovered while Sora remains down, following an outage for over two hours (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12

Apple adds a Layered Recordings feature to Voice Memos app in iOS 18.2, for iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max; iOS 18 previously brought transcriptions to Voice Memos (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 IOS iPhone Apple

Google unveils Project Mariner, a prototype AI agent built by Google DeepMind that can control Chrome, move the cursor, click buttons, fill out forms, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Google AI Chrome

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash to generate images, audio, and text, and use third-party apps and services, available via Gemini API and developer platforms (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-12 Google

Swedish startup Mynt, which offers smart expense cards for SMEs, raised €22M led by Vor Capital, a source says at a ~€200M valuation, and claims 12K SME clients (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Startup Sweden

Singapore-based auto financing marketplace CarDekho SEA, a unit of India's CarDekho, raised $60M at a $300M valuation, its first external raise since founding (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 India Singapore

Recorded Future: AI voice tech from ElevenLabs and others was “very likely” used in a recent Russian influence campaign to make videos appear more legitimate (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Russia AI

Filing: as of June 30, 2024, the paper losses on Tiger Global's 15th fund was at 15%+, placing it in the bottom 10% of all VC funds raised in 2021 per PitchBook (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11

Several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11

YouTube rolls out its auto-dubbing feature, which generates translated audio tracks, to hundreds of thousands of channels focused on knowledge and information (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 YouTube

Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Startup AI

Instagram officially rolls out “trial reels”, which give creators a way to test out videos by publishing them only to people who don't follow them (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-11 Instagram

Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum algorithms and AI, raised $38M led by Cathay Innovation, after raising €30M in January 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 AI Algorithm Quantum Paris

Software testing service LambdaTest, which supports 5K+ browser and OS combinations, raised a $38M Series D led by Avataar, taking its total funding to $108M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 Browser

OpenAI says the depiction of minors is limited with Sora, and only a “subset” of users can create videos of a real person using uploaded footage of that person (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10

In a mockup posted on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, a $8 per month paid subscription offering profile customizations, higher video upload limits, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 GitHub

Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers to let select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 Reddit

X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-8 AI

Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-8 Japan

Meta announces the Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-7

Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide launch a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, marking Uber's first international AV offering (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 China Uber Autonomous Car

An interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the culture needed to attract top engineers, fighting misinformation through open-source intelligence, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Amazon Interview Intelligence

California says ride-hail drivers need to pass a fingerprint background check to transport unaccompanied teens; Uber launched Uber for Teens in CA in February (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Uber California

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