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Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Fintech Startup

Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Google

PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago India Mobile

Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago U.S. Latin America

Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Nintendo

Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help users plan vacations, including trip idea updates to AI Overviews and hotel price drop alerts (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Google AI

After OpenAI released a new ChatGPT image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago China

Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

YouTube says Shorts views will now be counted each time a video starts to play or replay, rather than only after being watched for a certain number of seconds (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago YouTube

Email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, in its second reorganization in just over a year (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1% (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Quora's Poe launches its most affordable subscription plan for $5/month (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Sources say that 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been misrepresenting its customer base and financial performance (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Arcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners, bringing total funding to $42M, and expands to home goods (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI

Berlin-based workflow automation startup n8n raised a €55M Series B, sources say on a valuation of ~€250M, and says it has 3K+ enterprise customers (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Germany Startup

Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a “text-like” format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M seed led by Felicis (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI Browser

Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI Instagram

BuildOps, which develops software for commercial services contractors, raised a $127M Series C led by Meritech Capital at a $1B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Report: North Korea is launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227 focused on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Korea AI Asset

Stockholm-based Evroc, which plans to build hyperscale data centers in Europe and an array of cloud services, raised a $55M Series A from Blisce and others (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Europe

Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an AI-based mortgage origination service for tech employees, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago mortgage AI

Stockholm-based Rerun, which is building a data stack for “Physical AI” like robots and drones, raised a $17M seed, bringing its total funding to $20.2M (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI Robot Drone

Germany's Munich Re agrees to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6B; Next Insurance has raised ~$1.2B from Capital G, Redpoint, and others (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Germany Insurance Munich

Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

Michael Seibel says he is leaving YC after 12+ years and moving to a “Partner Emeritus” role, after stepping back from “leadership responsibilities” in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Google AI

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