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On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect “artisan” product due to AI competition (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI

OpenAI hires the team behind Crossing Minds, which raised $13.5M and works with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago

Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Android IOS Google AI

Source: Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to work on its AI reasoning models under the company's new AI superintelligence unit (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Google AI

YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI YouTube

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

WhatsApp launches optional Meta AI-generated summaries of unread messages in the US; Meta can't read the messages and summaries are hidden from other chat users (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI WhatsApp

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests by connecting Gemini models to local codebases in terminals (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago NLP Google AI

Berlin-based Synthflow, a no-code service letting enterprises build and deploy customized voice AI customer service agents, raised a $20M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Germany AI

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago iPhone Apple

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Google AI

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup

Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Google Startup AI

Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow claims responsibility; Elliptic: $90M+ was stolen and “burned” (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Israel Iran

OpenAI details why “emergent misalignment”, where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

Google rolls out the ability to have back-and-forth voice conversations with AI Mode, available in the Google app by tapping the Live button (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Google AI

On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team”, like $100M signing bonuses, and “none of our best people” have accepted (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI

Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Facebook

Anysphere debuts a $200/month Ultra plan for Cursor with 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI vs. its $20/month Pro plan (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Google AI

AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B+ valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago India Israel Startup

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