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Alibaba releases QwQ-32B-Preview under an Apache 2.0 license and claims the “reasoning” AI model beats OpenAI's o1 models on the AIME and MATH tests (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28 Alibaba AI Mathematics

Ofcom: adults in the UK are now spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes daily online across devices, a jump from 3 hours and 41 minutes in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28

Spotify will no longer allow developers building new third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, such as song and artist recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28 Spotify

Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's “starter packs”, with profiles “handpicked by people on Threads” for users to follow (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28

Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-27 Google Apple

A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-27

Cradle, which uses AI to help design proteins and says its SaaS model has proven popular, raised a $73M Series B led by IVP, after a $24M Series A in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 SaaS AI

Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 AI

Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Instagram

Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised a $26M Series A at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26

PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Startup AI

Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Italy

Profiles of Teresa Ribera, Henna Virkkunen, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the three incoming EU commissioners in charge of key tech policy areas into 2029 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-25

Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-24 Startup

Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23

Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23

In 2025, Revolut plans to roll out branded ATMs with facial recognition, start offering mortgages, and ramp up its business offerings with BNPL options and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 Facial Recognition

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 India Startup

Anthropic raised an additional $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary cloud partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 Amazon

Texas AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to determine if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued WFA in August (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Texas

Brave Search introduces AI chat to let users ask follow-up questions to initial queries, bringing together capabilities of chat-first and search-first tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 AI

Spotify adds new audiobook features for Premium users: video clips up to 30 seconds long, Author Pages, and visuals that appear while users listen (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Spotify

Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 WhatsApp

Lightning AI, which lets customers fine-tune and run AI models in their preferred cloud environments, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $103M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 AI

Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources: the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Startup

Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI's o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia's business moving forward (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 Nvidia

OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21

Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 China AI

Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 France Startup AI

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