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Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use, after recent changes with overly broad language about user data sparked user backlash (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Firefox Mozilla

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce they are working on an “AI Phone” priced at under $1K, first aimed at the European market and slated to launch in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Europe AI

Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E at a $61.5B post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; it has now raised $18.2B in total funding, per Crunchbase (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4

Stability AI partners with Arm to bring Stability's Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to Arm-based mobile devices (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Mobile AI

Google demos new Gemini features, including Screenshare to let users ask questions based on their phone's screen, and video search, coming later in March 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-3 Google

Zurich-based Unique, which offers AI agents for financial firms, raised a $30M Series A co-led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to support its US expansion (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-2 AI

Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android, developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbia to unlock phones (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-1 Android Google

The product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai, says OpenAI plans to integrate Sora into ChatGPT, but it may not offer the same level of control as Sora's web app (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-1

Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-1 AI Firefox Mozilla

Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-1 Microsoft Skype

Sundar Pichai says Waymo logs 200K+ weekly paid robotaxi rides, doubling in a year and 20x in two; Waymo says its self-driving system logs 1M+ miles per week (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28

IBM says it has completed its $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition, confirming that the US FTC quietly cleared the deal just before the UK CMA's approval on February 25 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28 IBM

TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools, on April 1 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28 AI

A look at GPT-4.5's claimed performance, including for coding, where it matches GPT-4o and o3-mini but falls short of Deep Research and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28

Sam Altman says OpenAI was forced to stagger GPT-4.5's rollout because it is “out of GPUs”; the model is wildly expensive, costing $75 per million input tokens (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28

OpenAI's GPT-4.5 System Card says the model is highly persuasive and excelled at convincing GPT-4o into “donating” virtual money (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28

TikTok revamps its desktop website with a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, and a floating player, in a bid to take on YouTube (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28 YouTube

NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $79M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-28

Polish startup Nomagic, which makes robotic arms for logistics operations, raised a $44M Series B led by the EBRD, taking its total funding to ~$74M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Startup Robot Poland Logistics

London-based parcel delivery startup Relay, whose customers include Temu, TikTok, Vinted, and UK retailers like THG Fulfil, raised a $35M Series A led by Plural (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Startup London

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet reportedly cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train, similar to Claude 3.5 and cheaper than GPT-4, which cost over $100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27

Cellebrite suspends Serbia as a customer after a report alleged authorities used its tools to unlock phones of a journalist and an activist and plant spyware (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27

Microsoft says it completed a multi-year project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, to let Europe-based cloud customers store and process data in EU (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Europe Microsoft

Amazon says Alexa+ will be able to navigate through movies on Prime Video due to Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV's integration, including “jump to a scene” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon

Amazon says Alexa+ is “model agnostic”, using Amazon Nova models and Anthropic's models, and picks the “best” AI model for a task, drawing on Amazon Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

Bridgetown Research, which aims to use AI agents to expedite data collection and research in due diligence, raised a $19M Series A led by Accel and Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 AI

Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 Google Microsoft IBM Tencent GitHub

Sensor Tower: in 2024, TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, became the first non-game app to reach $6B in annual in-app purchase revenue (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 China Sensor

After backlash, YC deletes a demo video from X and LinkedIn of a startup it backs that says it's building AI-powered performance monitoring for factory workers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 LinkedIn Startup AI

A Twitch channel called Claude Plays Pokémon is streaming Claude 3.7 Sonnet using its reasoning capabilities to play a game of Pokémon Red (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26

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