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Software testing service LambdaTest, which supports 5K+ browser and OS combinations, raised a $38M Series D led by Avataar, taking its total funding to $108M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 Browser

OpenAI says the depiction of minors is limited with Sora, and only a “subset” of users can create videos of a real person using uploaded footage of that person (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10

In a mockup posted on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, a $8 per month paid subscription offering profile customizations, higher video upload limits, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 GitHub

Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers to let select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-10 Reddit

X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-8 AI

Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-8 Japan

Meta announces the Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-7

Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide launch a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, marking Uber's first international AV offering (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 China Uber Autonomous Car

An interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the culture needed to attract top engineers, fighting misinformation through open-source intelligence, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Amazon Interview Intelligence

California says ride-hail drivers need to pass a fingerprint background check to transport unaccompanied teens; Uber launched Uber for Teens in CA in February (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Uber California

Meta tests letting Threads users see metrics for their individual posts, including views and interactions, as part of changes to Threads' Insights feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

US SEC filing: xAI raised $6B, bringing its total raised to $12B; it was reportedly aiming for a $50B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not “necessarily true” that Bluesky will always be ad-free; ads could be “user intent-driven”, like running in search results (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

Google unveils PaliGemma 2 models, which can analyze images and generate captions describing “actions, emotions, and the overall narrative of the scene” (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Google

Microsoft rolls out Copilot Vision in preview to analyze text and images on webpages and answer queries, starting with some Copilot Pro users in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Microsoft

Chainalysis names co-founder Jonathan Levin as CEO, replacing co-founder Michael Gronager, who took a temporary personal leave of absence in October 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

London-based Lawhive, whose AI-based SaaS tools let small, “Main Street” law firms automate legal tasks, raised a $40M Series A co-led by GV and TQ Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 SaaS AI London

Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extract insights from customer feedback, raised a $20.8M Series A led by Canaan, bringing its total raised to $25M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5

Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its lead Raiza Martin, are leaving to launch a startup focused on building “a user-first AI product” (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google Startup AI

Cleerly, whose AI-powered imaging tech aims to identify early-stage heart disease, raised a $106M Series C extension, adding to the $223M it raised in July 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 AI

Axiado, which makes chips and apps to secure data centers, 5G base stations, and more from cyberattacks, raised a $60M Series C led by Maverick Silicon (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 5G

Some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by 2024's Spotify Wrapped, complaining about the inclusion of an AI podcast, a lack of detailed statistics, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 AI Spotify

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI

Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B via a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in early 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5

Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped via Google's AI summarization tool NotebookLM, and a Your Music Evolution feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI Spotify

In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 China Interview AI

AI companies' ads for AI tools show most don't really know what AI is good for, and the ways people use AI are discomfiting, automating tasks that make us human (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 AI

Online secondhand fashion marketplace ThredUP, whose market cap dropped from $1.3B at its 2021 IPO to just $60M in November 2024, divests its European business (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Europe IPO

Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps during major elections in the US, the UK, India, Indonesia, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 India AI Indonesia

Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Adobe Salesforce

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