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The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-26 Startup AI

Snapchat announces updates to its account blocking functionality and enhanced friending safeguards, making it difficult for strangers to contact its users (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-26 Snapchat

k-ID, a platform that helps game developers comply with child safety and data privacy regulations, raised a $45M Series A led by a16z and Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-25

Etched, which is building Sohu, an inferencing chip that only runs transformer AI models, raised a $120M Series A, bringing its total funding to $125.36M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-25 AI

Belgium-based TechWolf, which provides AI-powered internal talent management software, has raised a $42.75M Series B led by Felix Capital at a $150M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-25 AI Belgium

Emergence, which is building “agent-based” systems that orchestrate tasks by routing them to first- and third-party AI systems, emerges from stealth with $97.2M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-25 AI

Prosus, the largest external investor in Byju's with a 9.6% stake, says its stake in the Indian edtech giant is now worth zero; Prosus invested a total of $570M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-24 India

An interview with Open Source Initiative executive director Stefano Maffulli on what makes an AI open source, creating the Open Source AI Definition, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-24 Interview AI Open Source

Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-24 Android India Google AI chatbot

Change Healthcare says the February ransomware attack on its systems resulted in the theft of medical records of a “substantial proportion of people” in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22

The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against twelve executives of Kaspersky; founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky is not included in the sanctions (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22

Google pauses plans to allow real-money games on the Play Store, as supporting such apps in markets without a central licensing framework proves difficult (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22 Google

Some users say Meta is tagging real photos with the Made with AI label, possibly because AI-powered tools were used to edit, rather than create, the images (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22 AI

AI-powered language-learning app Speak raised a $20M Series B extension led by Buckley, bringing its total funding to $84M and doubling its valuation to $500M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22 AI

Squarespace agrees to sell its restaurant reservation service Tock to American Express for $400M, the exact amount that it paid for Tock in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-22 U.S.

Indian grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $665M Series F co-led by Glade Brook, Nexus, and StepStone Group at a $3.6B valuation, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21 India Startup

The Commerce Department bans Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US, says Kaspersky threatens national security and users' privacy because it is based in Russia (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21 Russia

Sources: Poolside, co-founded by ex-GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build AI tools to speed up software development, is raising $400M+ at a $2B+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21 AI GitHub

New Jersey-based Semperis, which offers tools to protect enterprises using Microsoft Active Directory, raised $125M and says it now has a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21 Microsoft

Gynger, which lets companies “finance, pay, and manage” their tech purchases, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures, bringing its total raised to $31.7M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21

Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship Claude 3 Opus model and outperforms GPT-4o in some tasks, available for free on the web and iOS (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-21 IOS

Daydream, which is building a search engine for personalized shopping using GenAI, ML, and computer vision, raised a $50M seed co-led by Forerunner and Index (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-20

Kenya ends a year-long investigation into Worldcoin with “no further police action” and says the startup must register its business, acquire licenses, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-20 Startup

Accel and Dealroom: out of 221 generative AI startups in Europe and Israel, 27% were created in London, 13% in Tel Aviv, 12% in Berlin, and 10% in Paris (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-20 Germany Europe Israel Startup AI London Paris

Appfigures: iOS 18 could “Sherlock” trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-19 IOS Mathematics

An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-19 AI

AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-19 Startup AI

London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-19 London

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-18

A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-18 India

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