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The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Europe AI

YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 YouTube

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 AI

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Seattle

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees to acquire corporate spending software company Airbase for $325M; Airbase was valued at $600M in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Android Google Open Source

X launches a new TV app “on several app stores” in beta, as part of an effort to court advertisers, creators, and partners around a “video-first platform” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 GitHub

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inflection team doesn't cause competition concerns, but designates the deal as a merger (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Microsoft

Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist that evolves through the day depending on listening habits, globally for free and adds support for 14 languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Spotify

Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI Sweden London

Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Ban Brazil

Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by default, only followers you follow back can leave comments (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Instagram

Spotter launches Spotter Studio, a set of AI tools that analyze 2B+ top performing YouTube videos to help creators brainstorm video ideas, and more, for $49/mo. (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI YouTube

Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 retail and business customers, raised a $22M Series A led by Altos, bringing its total funding to $30M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3 Retail P2P Dubai

Doccla, whose “virtual bed” tech helps doctors monitor patients remotely, raised a $46M Series B led by Lakestar after raising a $17M Series A in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3

A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art marketplace with 25M users who created ~1B images; source: it has $4M annualized revenue with a ~50% margin (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-2

Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-31 Korea Microsoft

LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-31

Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-31 Google AI

Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in 2022 when VerSe raised $805M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-31 India Startup

Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-30 Android IOS Google AI

Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-30 AI

Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-30

Codeium, which offers enterprise AI coding tools, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and reports 700K+ users and 1K+ enterprise clients (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-30 AI

Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-29 Russia Google

Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend over to WordPress, in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after buying Tumblr for $3M in 2019 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-29 WordPress

Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and posts submitted via Threads API will be syndicated to the fediverse (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-29

Web browser startup Brave lays off 27 employees, after cutting 9% of its workforce in October 2023; PitchBook estimates that Brave has ~191 employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-28 Startup Browser

Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-28 Africa Egypt

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