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Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI

OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI

xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with “reasoning” capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 mini costs $0.30/$0.50 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10

Court document: NSO Group's spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims, India had 100 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Mexico India WhatsApp

Tessell, which offers a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, raised a $60M Series B and plans to launch an AI-based conversational database management service (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Database AI

Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Facebook

Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10

YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 AI YouTube

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after a $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 Startup

WordPress.com launches an AI website builder to help users create a website via its chat-style interface, available to WordPress users for free (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-10 WordPress AI

Reddit integrates Gemini into its conversational AI search tool Reddit Answers, in beta since December 2024, to improve search relevance and give quick answers (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 AI Reddit

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for “high-volume” and “real-time” applications, launching soon in Vertex AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google AI

Google Cloud Next: Google updates Gemini Code Assist to add agentic capabilities, including creating apps from product specifications in Google Docs, in preview (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, available in a 256-chip or a 9,216-chip cluster (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Google

UK-based high-end fashion marketplace Lyst agrees to a $154M acquisition by Japan-based fashion and e-commerce company Zozo; Lyst was valued at $700M+ in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Japan

The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Android China

Rain, which offers an employer-integrated personal finance and earned wage access app, raised a $75M Series B led by Prosus at a $340M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9

Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Blockchain

Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is “the most cost-efficient” model on the market, via Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Amazon AI

Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Startup

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling young users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Facebook

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 IBM AI

Meta VP of generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained its Llama 4 models on test sets, saying Meta “would never do that” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-6 AI Instagram WhatsApp

Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-6 Facebook Instagram

SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 India

Turbine, which allows LPs to borrow funds secured by their position in venture funds, emerges from stealth with a $13M Series A and an $8.75M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5

Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 Amazon

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