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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

In a rare move, Apple publishes a statement and a document listing all ByteDance apps inaccessible in the US alongside TikTok, including Lemon8 and Lark (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-20 Apple

Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to boost engagement, available to paid subscribers and a limited set of users on its free plan (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-19 Mobile AI

Filing: ChatGPT's head of product, Nick Turley, will testify as a witness for the US DOJ in its antitrust case against Google, as a court decides penalties (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18 Google

Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals; Read.cv will shut down and users will be able to export their data until May 16 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18

Bluesky 2024 moderation report: Bluesky gained 23M+ users, its moderation team grew to ~100, and its moderation service received 6.48M reports, up 17x from 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18

Google has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript to use Google Search, says to “better protect” Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18 Google

Instabase, which lets companies process unstructured data from different document types, raised a $100M Series D led by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18 Qatar

PitchBook: investors put $74.6B into US startups in Q4 2024, up from an average of $42B in the prior nine quarters, with $32B invested across just five deals (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-18 Startup 4Q

Apple launches its dedicated Apple Store app in India, allowing customers to purchase products, receive personalized shopping recommendations, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-17 India Apple

Robotics company Symbotic agrees to take control of Walmart's automation business for $200M in cash and up to $350M in “additional contingent consideration” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-17 Robot Walmart

Netradyne, which provides AI-enabled dashcams to fleet owners like Amazon, raised a $90M Series D led by Point72 at a pre-money valuation of $1.25B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-17 Amazon AI

US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach say hackers accessed “all” historical student and teacher data; PowerSchool has 50M+ US student records (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-17

AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on “developing and operationalizing AGI” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Chinese AI company MiniMax, which has raised ~$850M, debuts three LLMs, including a 456B-parameter model that it claims performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 China AI

Amazon to acquire Bengaluru-based BNPL startup Axio, sources say for $150M+; Axio raised $135M in equity, claims to have 10M+ customers, and a $260M+ loan book (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 Amazon Startup Equity

In a deposition for the Kadrey v. Meta copyright case, Mark Zuckerberg seemingly cited YouTube to justify Meta's use of copyrighted data for AI training (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI YouTube Zuckerberg

Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 France Startup AI

Google agreed to buy 100K tons of CO2 removal credits from Indian startup Varaha for an undisclosed sum, marking its first deal with a carbon project in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 India Google Startup

Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16

Maki, which provides companies a conversational AI agent for job interviews and candidate filtering, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI

LinkedIn launches free AI tools: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses, both built on its own AI tech and data (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 LinkedIn AI

Berlin-based Nelly, whose SaaS lets medical practices digitally onboard new patients, accept payments, and more, raised a €50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Germany SaaS

Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup AI London

LemFi, a financial and payment services platform designed for immigrants that claims to have over 1M active users, raised a $53M Series B led by Highland Europe (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Europe Immigration

Elmsford, NY-based quantum computing startup SEEQC raised a $30M Series A extension co-led by Booz Allen and NordicNinja, following a $22.4M Series A in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup Quantum

Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Android IOS Google Instagram Decentralize

The US says the FBI hacked ~4.2K devices in the US to delete PlugX, malware used by China-backed hackers since 2014, after obtaining warrants in August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 China FBI

The US, Japan, and South Korea issue a joint statement saying North Korean-backed hackers stole $659M+ in crypto heists in 2024 and were behind the $235M WazirX (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Japan Korea

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