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SoftBank-backed P2P vehicle sharing service Getaround is shutting down US operations, including HyreCar, to focus on Europe, where it operates in six countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 Europe P2P

Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 Elon Musk

Candid Health, which helps simplify medical billing by automating claims processing and eliminating manual work for billing teams, raised a $52.5M Series C (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

London- and SF-based Latent Labs, which is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable”, emerges from stealth with $50M across seed and Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 AI London

NYC- and Bengaluru-based SpotDraft, which offers tools to help in-house legal teams simplify contracting tasks, raised a $54M Series B led by Vertex and Trident (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which will no longer be offered as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

Indian startup Lucidity, which helps enterprises optimize their cloud storage, raised a $21M Series A led by WestBridge, after a $5.3M seed in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 India Startup

Google rolls out AI image remixing tool Whisk to 100+ countries, letting users upload three images for subject, scene, and style to remix, powered by Imagen 3 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 Google AI

Miami-based Moderne, which helps companies analyze their software stack and remediate technical debt, raised a $30M Series B led by Acrew Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12

Neal Mohan says AI auto dubbing will expand to all YouTube Partner Program creators, and YouTube will use ML to estimate users' ages for age-appropriate content (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI YouTube

Tel Aviv-based Voyantis, which uses AI to predict a customer's future propensity and lifetime value for marketers, raised $41M, taking its total funding to $60M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI

Sydney-based Harrison.ai, which uses AI to analyze CT scans, X-rays, and pathology slides, raised a $112M Series C, after a ~$92.3M Series B in November 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI Sydney

Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its note-taking AI assistant with higher usage limits, to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-11 Google AI

Christie's plans to hold its first AI art auction beginning February 20; critics say the sale elevates AI tools trained on artists' works without their consent (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-9 AI

DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-8 Mathematics

Meta and UNESCO launch Language Technology Partner Program to collect speech recordings and transcriptions to aid the development of future openly available AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 AI

Swiggy's stock fell to $4.29 on February 6, below its $4.45 IPO price, after hitting $7.04 in December, as quarterly results showed Instamart lost marketshare (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 IPO

Customer service software startup Sprinklr cuts 500 jobs, ~15% of its workforce, citing weak business performance; C-level staff remain unaffected (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Startup

OpenAI updates o3-mini's chain of thought to make it easier for users “to understand how the model thinks”, available to both free and paid ChatGPT users (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7

Trump has proposed taxing carried interest as ordinary income in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, a policy that could sharply increase the tax bill for VCs (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Trump Tax Republican

Kelly Stonelake, a former Meta director who was at the company from 2009 to 2024, sues Meta, alleging sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7

GitHub announces updates for Copilot, including Vision for Copilot to generate interfaces, code, and alt text from a screenshot, photo, or a diagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 GitHub

Mistral releases iOS and Android apps and unveils several updates to its AI assistant Le Chat, including a $14.99 per month Pro tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Android IOS AI

Munich-based Avelios, which is developing a healthcare system covering EHR, billing, clinical records, and more, raised a €30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Munich

TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, raised $19M led by Intel Capital, taking its total funding to $21M, and claims 30 customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Intel AI

XOi, whose software lets field technicians get info about the machines they need to fix, raises $230M from KKR and buys its rival Specifx for an undisclosed sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-6

AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington claim they trained an AI reasoning model, called s1, for under $50 in cloud compute credits (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-6 AI

Analysis: European AI startups raised $8B in 2024, with 70% going to seed to Series B rounds, led by startups in the UK, France, and Germany (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Germany France Europe Startup AI

Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M Series C led by Krafton, bringing its total funding to nearly $100M, a source says at a $700M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Robotics startup Figure is exiting its Feb. 2024 OpenAI deal, which aimed to develop AI models for robots, to focus on in-house AI after a “major breakthrough” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup AI Robot

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