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Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-party AR tools and content platform that launched in 2017, effective January 14, 2025, angering some creators (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-28 AR

nOps, which helps companies optimize AWS spend, raised a $30M Series A led by Headlight Partners and says its customer base grew 450% over the past 18 months (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-28

Anthropic publishes a changelog for the system prompts of its Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku models, the first major AI vendor to do so (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-27 AI

Viggle, developer of 3D-video foundation model JST-1, raised a $19M Series A led by a16z; Viggle says the model is trained on public sources, including YouTube (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-27 YouTube

Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months and let users export their conversations as the startup focuses on enterprise products (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-27 Startup AI chatbot

Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-25

Andrew Ng steps down as CEO of LandingAI, the computer vision startup he founded in 2017, and transitions to executive chairman; ex-COO Dan Maloney is named CEO (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-24 Startup

India's Open Network for Digital Commerce expands into financial services, starting with APIs for digital lending, and adds nine lending service providers (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-23 India

Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-based ERP testing software, raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-23 AI California ERP

Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads globally, after rolling out Instagram and Facebook cross-posting in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-22 Facebook Instagram

Zomato acquires Paytm's entertainment ticketing business for $244.1M; the division contributed about 9% to Paytm's overall revenues in Q1 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-22

Grafana Labs, which makes the Grafana visualization tools, completes a primary and secondary transaction worth ~$270M at a $6B+ valuation, up from $3B in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-21

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation, raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-21 New York

Flight tracking site FlightAware, which claims 10M+ monthly users, reports a breach dating back to January 2021 that exposed names, SSNs, addresses, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-21

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now giving 100K+ paid robotaxi rides every week in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, a few months after passing 50K+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-21 San Francisco

Virginia-based Defcon AI, which aims to use ML to improve US military logistics, raised a $44M seed led by Bessemer, and has earned $15M in government contracts (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-20 AI Logistics Virginia

Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature as it lacks many integrations that text-based Gemini supports and cannot yet interpret images or video (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-20

X says it's closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened arrest if X didn't comply with “censorship orders”; the service remains available (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-18 Brazil

The European Commission asks Meta for information about its Content Library tool and API under the DSA, following Meta's decision to deprecate CrowdTangle (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-16 Europe

California lawmakers weaken the AI safety bill with amendments proposed by Anthropic and other opponents, including giving the AG less power to sue AI companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-16 AI California

Threads announces new features, like the ability to store multiple drafts and an analytics page, rolling out on the web, and plans to test a scheduling feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-16

A look at Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which recently emerged from stealth with a $31M seed led by a16z and whose FLUX.1 model powers Grok's image generator (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-15 Germany

President Biden hosts the first White House Creator Economy Conference, with about 100 startup founders, industry stakeholders, and creators in attendance (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-15 Startup

EliseAI, which offers AI property management tools for landlords, raised a $75M Series D led by Sapphire at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $140M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 AI

Kiteworks, formerly Accellion, which offers secure email and file transfer tools, raised $456M from Insight and Sixth Street Growth at a $1B+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14

xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning capabilities, available to X Premium and Premium+ users; the API will debut later in August (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14

A look at challenges Google faces ahead of Pixel 9 launch in India; IDC: Google's smartphone shipments in India grew over 1,300% in 2023 to a 0.5% market share (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 India Google

Chinese self-driving startup WeRide gets permission to test its robotaxis with passengers in California after testing without passengers in San Jose since 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 China Startup California

NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM's director of research thinks quantum computing will hit an inflection point around 2030 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 IBM Quantum

Encord, which offers a data labeling tools for AI, raised a $30M Series B led by Next47 and expects to grow its headcount from 70 to 100 by the end of the year (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 AI

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