Articles from techcrunch.com

Articles from techcrunch.com

Hedra, which offers a web-based video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model, raised a $32M Series A led by a16z, following a $10M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

YouTube previews new ad formats coming to the platform, including an enhanced shoppable connected TV offering with a new interactive product feed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15 YouTube

OpenAI launches the Safety Evaluations Hub, a page showing how the company's models score on various tests for harmful content, jailbreaks, and hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of lidar manufacturer Luminar, resigns following an ethics inquiry and is replaced by former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Foxconn receives approval from India's cabinet to build a new $435M semiconductor plant, expected to open in 2027, in a joint venture with IT giant HCL Group (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15 India

OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 for Plus, Pro, and Team users in ChatGPT, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised $100M led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, taking its total funding to $146.7M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Vegas AMD

WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, it spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay ~$3M-$30M to use Pegasus (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 WhatsApp

Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Amazon AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Google

Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Android Google

The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Dallas-based Bestow, which offers underwriting and insurance software to carriers, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Goldman Insurance

GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13

Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta's Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Google

Cairo-based Nawy, Africa's largest proptech platform combining listings with brokerage services, raised a $52M Series A led by Partech Africa (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-12 Africa

Ramp AI index: 32.4% of US businesses had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell from 2.3% in Feb. to 0.1% in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-11 Google AI

A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 Startup

SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 AI

Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 AI

Rippling raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation, up from $13.4B during its $200M Series F in 2024; it is also conducting a $200M tender offer (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

Appfigures estimates Apple's US App Store revenue from commissions was ~$10.1B in 2024, more than doubling from ~$4.76B in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Apple

SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a “small number” of advertisers, and “Reels trending ads”, which will be shown next to trending Reels (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9

Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including the use of Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Google AI Chrome

Sales automation startup Clay lets staff with 1+ year of tenure sell shares in a tender led by Sequoia at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the service will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an AI experiment in r/ChangeMyView (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Reddit

Previous Page Next Page