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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

Perfect, a startup from the founder of AnyVision that helps job recruiters write and publish job listings and triage responses, raised a $23M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 Startup

Sweden-based Lovable, an AI-powered app builder, raised a $15M pre-Series A led by Creandum following a €6.8M pre-seed, says it has 500K users and $17M in ARR (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 AI Sweden

The UK CMA clears IBM's $6.4B acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp, 10 months after IBM announced the deal, which needs US FTC approval (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 IBM

Israeli startup Quantum Machines, which offers hardware tools to other quantum computing companies, raised a $170M Series C led by PSG Equity (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 Israel Startup Equity Quantum

Employee screening company DISA confirms a data breach in February 2024, found in April 2024, affecting 3.3M+ people and including Social Security numbers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25

Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25 Apple

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25

Sensor Tower: during Grok 3's release week, Grok mobile app downloads rose over 10x week over week; Similarweb: US web app daily visits rose from ~189K to 900K+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25 Mobile Sensor

Perplexity teases a web browser “for agentic search” called Comet that is “coming soon” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25 Browser

Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-25 Iraq AI Arabia Saudi Arabia Egypt Libya

Google prices Veo 2, its new AI video model, at $0.50 per second of generated video; in December 2024, OpenAI offered Sora to its ChatGPT Plus and Pro subs (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-24 Google AI

Sakana AI walks back claims that its new AI CUDA Engineer can speed up AI training by up to 100x, after complaints about worse-than-average training performance (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-22 AI

OpenAI launches Operator in the UK, Japan, and most ChatGPT regions, and says it's working to expand to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-21 Japan Switzerland Norway

Substack adds the ability to post videos from its app and lets creators monetize videos, and plans to add more video tools like trimming and enhanced analytics (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-21

Amazon will end support for Chime, its alternative to Zoom, on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-21 Amazon

Amazon plans to discontinue its app store for Android and its Coins digital currency, used to purchase games and apps, on August 20, 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-21 Android Amazon

Global Witness: ahead of German elections, TikTok's and X's For You feeds showed a substantial far-right bias; 78% of TikTok's recommendations supported the AfD (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 Germany Far-right

Paris-based Spore.Bio, which has developed a pre-trained deep learning algorithm to speed up microbiology testing, raised a $23M Series A led by Singular (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 Deep Learning Algorithm Paris

Sanas, whose tech changes call center workers' accents in real time using AI, raised a $65M Series B at a $500M+ valuation led by Quadrille and Teleperformance (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AI

Mistral's Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store's top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT had 500K in just six days (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 France

Uber ditches commissions in favor of fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 India Uber

Filings: US Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleads guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from them last year (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AT&T

Instagram updates direct messages with translation in 99 languages, scheduling and pinning tools, music-sharing features, and more, on iOS and Android first (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 Android IOS Instagram

Augury, which uses AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines, raised a $72.5M Series F, potentially rising to ~$100M, led by Lightrock at a $1B+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AI

French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 France Startup

Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 IOS Google Apple

Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI Creation Model, which lets gig workers configure an AI model trained on their work and set prices to use it (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in December 2022 as a TikTok-style feed in its app for discovering products (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 Amazon

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