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OpenAI launches the Safety Evaluations Hub, a page showing how the company's models score on various tests for harmful content, jailbreaks, and hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
5 hours ago

Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of lidar manufacturer Luminar, resigns following an ethics inquiry and is replaced by former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago

Foxconn receives approval from India's cabinet to build a new $435M semiconductor plant, expected to open in 2027, in a joint venture with IT giant HCL Group (techcrunch.com)
11 hours ago India

OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 for Plus, Pro, and Team users in ChatGPT, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users (techcrunch.com)
12 hours ago

Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised $100M led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, taking its total funding to $146.7M (techcrunch.com)
20 hours ago Vegas AMD

WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, it spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay ~$3M-$30M to use Pegasus (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago WhatsApp

Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Amazon AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI

Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Google

Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Android Google

The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI

Dallas-based Bestow, which offers underwriting and insurance software to carriers, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Goldman Insurance

GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago

Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta's Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Google

Cairo-based Nawy, Africa's largest proptech platform combining listings with brokerage services, raised a $52M Series A led by Partech Africa (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Africa

Ramp AI index: 32.4% of US businesses had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell from 2.3% in Feb. to 0.1% in April (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Google AI

A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Startup

SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Rippling raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation, up from $13.4B during its $200M Series F in 2024; it is also conducting a $200M tender offer (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

Appfigures estimates Apple's US App Store revenue from commissions was ~$10.1B in 2024, more than doubling from ~$4.76B in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Apple

SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup

Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a “small number” of advertisers, and “Reels trending ads”, which will be shown next to trending Reels (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including the use of Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Google AI Chrome

Sales automation startup Clay lets staff with 1+ year of tenure sell shares in a tender led by Sequoia at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the service will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an AI experiment in r/ChangeMyView (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI Reddit

WisdomAI, which offers AI-powered data analytics from structured, unstructured, and “dirty” data, launches with a $23M seed led by Coatue Ventures (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI

At Stripe Sessions, the company announced an AI foundation model for payments, plans for stablecoin-powered accounts, a recent migration with Nvidia, and more (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI Nvidia

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