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The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO Albert Saniger with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on human workers in the Philippines; Nate raised $50M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11 AI Philippines

BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it has an estimated 40M MAUs, including 5M in the US, and 85% of its users are Gen Z (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11

Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images and design ideas, and Canva Code, to create mini apps that can be integrated in designs (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11 AI

OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a memory feature that references past chats for answers, rolling out to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and EEA (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11

Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-11

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google would add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but offered no timeframe (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Google

Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised $81M, files for Chapter 11, citing a “costly” lawsuit with FTV Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10

Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI

OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI

xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with “reasoning” capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 mini costs $0.30/$0.50 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10

Court document: NSO Group's spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims, India had 100 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Mexico India WhatsApp

Tessell, which offers a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, raised a $60M Series B and plans to launch an AI-based conversational database management service (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Database AI

Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Facebook

Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10

YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI YouTube

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after a $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Startup

WordPress.com launches an AI website builder to help users create a website via its chat-style interface, available to WordPress users for free (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 WordPress AI

Reddit integrates Gemini into its conversational AI search tool Reddit Answers, in beta since December 2024, to improve search relevance and give quick answers (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 AI Reddit

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for “high-volume” and “real-time” applications, launching soon in Vertex AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google AI

Google Cloud Next: Google updates Gemini Code Assist to add agentic capabilities, including creating apps from product specifications in Google Docs, in preview (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, available in a 256-chip or a 9,216-chip cluster (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google

UK-based high-end fashion marketplace Lyst agrees to a $154M acquisition by Japan-based fashion and e-commerce company Zozo; Lyst was valued at $700M+ in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Japan

The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Android China

Rain, which offers an employer-integrated personal finance and earned wage access app, raised a $75M Series B led by Prosus at a $340M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9

Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Blockchain

Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is “the most cost-efficient” model on the market, via Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Amazon AI

Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Startup

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling young users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Facebook

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 IBM AI

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