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BuildOps, which develops software for commercial services contractors, raised a $127M Series C led by Meritech Capital at a $1B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

Report: North Korea is launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227 focused on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Korea AI Asset

Stockholm-based Evroc, which plans to build hyperscale data centers in Europe and an array of cloud services, raised a $55M Series A from Blisce and others (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Europe

Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an AI-based mortgage origination service for tech employees, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago mortgage AI

Stockholm-based Rerun, which is building a data stack for “Physical AI” like robots and drones, raised a $17M seed, bringing its total funding to $20.2M (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI Robot Drone

Germany's Munich Re agrees to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6B; Next Insurance has raised ~$1.2B from Capital G, Redpoint, and others (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Germany Insurance Munich

Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

Michael Seibel says he is leaving YC after 12+ years and moving to a “Partner Emeritus” role, after stepping back from “leadership responsibilities” in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago

Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Google AI

AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago

OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to some devs for $150/1M input tokens and $600/1M output tokens (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago

Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud” (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Europe Google

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation” (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago WhatsApp

Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago

Google updates Wallet to let kids with Android smartphones tap to pay in stores in the US, the UK, Australia, Spain, and Poland under parental supervision (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Android Australia Google Spain Poland

Filing: Shopify says it is transitioning its US stock listing to the Nasdaq, nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Toronto Shopify

Stability AI releases Stable Virtual Camera, an AI model with a non-commercial use license that can create “immersive” 3D videos using up to 32 2D images (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI

GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised a $50M Series G at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $1.2B in 2021, and is on track for $2.4B in 2025 revenue (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI Logistics

CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Layoffs

AI coding assistant startup Graphite, now used by tens of thousands of staff at 500+ companies, raised an Accel-led $52M Series B; its revenue grew 20x in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Startup AI

Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Google chatbot

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Zuckerberg

Google launches new Search and Android health features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Android Google AI

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago San Francisco

Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

In an open letter, about 100 EU companies urge lawmakers to take “radical action” to cut reliance on foreign Big Tech by fostering a so-called “Euro stack” (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Some developers say licenses for “open” AI models like Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama have limits that restrict commercial use without fear of legal reprisal (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Google AI

Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

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