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Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago Elon Musk

Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY (techcrunch.com)
10 hours ago Adobe Salesforce Black Friday

Salesforce says global online Thanksgiving day sales hit $33.6B, up 6% YoY, and $8.1B in the US, up 8% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $6.1B, up ~9% YoY (techcrunch.com)
22 hours ago Adobe Salesforce

Sources: Meta plans to build a 40K+ km-long fiber optic subsea cable extending around the world, a project that could cost more than $10B (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago

Filing: Zomato has raised $1B by issuing approximately 336.5M shares at about $3 each, its first major fundraise since its 2021 IPO (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago IPO

The EU ends its long-running probe into whether Amazon received illegal tax benefits worth €250M from Luxembourg, where Amazon's EU HQ is, after court losses (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Amazon Tax

Alibaba releases QwQ-32B-Preview under an Apache 2.0 license and claims the “reasoning” AI model beats OpenAI's o1 models on the AIME and MATH tests (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Alibaba AI Mathematics

Ofcom: adults in the UK are now spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes daily online across devices, a jump from 3 hours and 41 minutes in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago

Spotify will no longer allow developers building new third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, such as song and artist recommendations (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Spotify

Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's “starter packs”, with profiles “handpicked by people on Threads” for users to follow (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Google Apple

A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

Cradle, which uses AI to help design proteins and says its SaaS model has proven popular, raised a $73M Series B led by IVP, after a $24M Series A in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago SaaS AI

Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Instagram

Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised a $26M Series A at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Italy

Profiles of Teresa Ribera, Henna Virkkunen, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the three incoming EU commissioners in charge of key tech policy areas into 2029 (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup

Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

In 2025, Revolut plans to roll out branded ATMs with facial recognition, start offering mortgages, and ramp up its business offerings with BNPL options and more (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Facial Recognition

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago India Startup

Anthropic raised an additional $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary cloud partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Amazon

Texas AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to determine if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued WFA in August (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Texas

Brave Search introduces AI chat to let users ask follow-up questions to initial queries, bringing together capabilities of chat-first and search-first tools (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

Spotify adds new audiobook features for Premium users: video clips up to 30 seconds long, Author Pages, and visuals that appear while users listen (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Spotify

Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago WhatsApp

Lightning AI, which lets customers fine-tune and run AI models in their preferred cloud environments, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $103M (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

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