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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

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that geofence warrants are “prohibited by the Fourth Amendment”, at odds with a recent Fourth Circuit ruling (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14

Google debuts the $1,799+ Pixel 9 Pro Fold, its second take on the category with larger 8" and 6.3" inner and outer displays, 4650 mAh battery, shipping Sept. 4 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 Google Battery

Twitch rolls out video stories, which can be 60 seconds long and set to expire after 1, 12, 24, or 48 hours, to challenge Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-14 Instagram

Tally, a fintech that helped users manage and pay off credit card debt, is shutting down; it had raised $172M and, per PitchBook, was last valued at $855M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-13 Fintech Credit Card

TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-13

Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous robotaxis on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, after getting regulator approval in March (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-13 San Francisco

Patreon says it has begun a migration process to move all creators to Apple's subscription billing by November 2025, after Apple threatened to remove the app (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-13 Apple

Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, partners with AI search engine Perplexity to show news summaries and with Tako to make AI visuals (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-12 AI

How cybersecurity researcher Jon DiMaggio used fake personas to infiltrate LockBit and trick its alleged administrator into revealing operation details (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-11

Sources: Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised a $60M Series A co-led by a16z and Thrive at a $400M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-10 GitHub

CloudPay, which offers cloud-based payroll and payments services to businesses, raised $120M led by Blue Owl Capital, taking its total funding to $228M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-9

Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards the fundamental requirements” of EU's DMA; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with “junk fees” (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-9 Apple Spotify

SoundHound acquires Amelia, which makes an AI agent that businesses can customize for internal or customer use, for $80M; PitchBook: Amelia raised $189M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-9 AI

Google's DeepMind Robotics team shows a table tennis robot that it says is a “solidly amateur human-level player” when pitted against a human (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-9 Google Robot

Techstars lays off 17% of its workforce, and says it will end the JP Morgan-backed $80M Advancing Cities fund after it is fully deployed at the end of 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-8

Meta says Facebook creators who violate Community Standards for the first time will be given the option to take a training course to remove their warning (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-8 Facebook

Ofcom publishes an open letter to social media platforms raising concerns about the use of their tools to incite violence, following days of rioting in the UK (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-8

Automattic launches Write Brief with AI, to help users write and tweak content using text prompts, in beta on Jetpack, after launching an AI assistant in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI

KNIME, an open-source data science and AI platform used by AMD, Audi, and ~400 other customers, raised $30M from Invus, taking its total funding to $50M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI Data Science AMD

Brian Chesky says Airbnb plans to expand into new products and services, including co-hosting this fall, guest services, and a relaunch of experiences next year (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 Airbnb

Reddit says it plans to test AI-powered search result pages later this year, using a combination of first- and third-party tech to power the feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI Reddit

Amazon Music debuts Maestro, an AI-powered playlist generator, and Topics, which helps users find podcast episodes by topic and is powered by both AI and humans (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 Amazon AI

Amazon says Amazon India chief Manish Tiwary “has decided to pursue an opportunity outside” of Amazon after taking over in late 2020, as competition intensifies (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-6 India Amazon

Riverlane, a Cambridge, UK-based maker of quantum error correction tech, raised a $75M Series C led by Planet First Partners, sources say at a $400M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-6 Quantum

OpenAI says it's changing the format of its DevDay conference this fall to a series of on-the-road developer sessions and GPT-5 will not be announced during it (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-6

Source: Placer.ai, which provides AI-powered market research based on location data, raised $75M at a $1.45B valuation, up from $1B at its Series C (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-6 AI

Data breach notifications show US pharmaceutical giant Cencora has notified at least 1.43M individuals that their data was compromised in a February data breach (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-3

Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-3 Google AI

Google unveils AI features for Chrome on desktop, including support for Google Lens and searching history via natural language queries, rolling out in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-2 NLP Google AI Chrome

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