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Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Japan

PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps business improve their online conversion rates, for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Substack launches a $20M Creator Accelerator Fund to lure US creators who have $2K+ per month in recurring revenue away from other subscription-based platforms (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

OpenAI partners with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to ensure that Operator respects these businesses' terms of service agreements (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24 Uber

Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi-app actions” like hailing a ride, initially free for users in 15 languages (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24 Android

Ramp launches Ramp Treasury, letting businesses store cash in a business account and earn 2.5% or in a money market fund for potentially higher yields (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday morning and OpenAI's API also experienced downtime; OpenAI says both issues are fixed (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 India WhatsApp Ban

Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 AI Sensor

Scale AI faces a lawsuit by six people who worked on its Outlier platform, claiming they were forced to write disturbing prompts about violence and abuse (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 AI

London-based Lindus Health, which has built a software platform for running clinical trials, raised a $55M Series B led by Balderton Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 London

Samsung's Galaxy S25 lineup will be the first handsets to support the Content Credentials standard, which identifies AI-generated images (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Samsung AI

After Musk said “they don't actually have the money” about Stargate, Altman says “what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23

YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Mobile YouTube

Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024 and including investment from Meta, and raised $5.25B in debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Startup

London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 SaaS AI London

Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 IOS

Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 Microsoft

OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle announce The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B in the next four years (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 AI Oracle

Perplexity debuts Sonar, an API service to let devs build AI search tools into their apps, with a base tier costing $5/1K searches and a pricier Sonar Pro tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 AI

Meta says it will offer eligible TikTok creators free verification, content deals, and up to $5,000 in bonuses to post Reels (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22

Meta will soon let users link WhatsApp accounts with Instagram and Facebook, allowing cross posts of WhatsApp Statuses as Stories on Instagram and Facebook (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

Trump signs an EO renaming the US Digital Service to the US DOGE Service, directing agency heads to form “DOGE Teams” of at least four members within 30 days (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-21 Trump

Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-21 Ford

Metropolis, an AI-powered parking service, acquires Oosto, formerly known as AnyVision, for just $125M in stock, well under the $380M it raised over the years (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-21 AI

X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US, letting users scroll through short videos, accessible via the app's bottom bar (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-20

Bluesky launches a custom feed for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “We had to get in on the video action too” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-20 Mobile

Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming next month on iOS and soon on Android, after CapCut is removed from app stores as part of the divest-or-ban law (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-20 Android IOS Ban

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