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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new speech policies were “announced hastily” in January and asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23

Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

Manychat, which offers social messaging tools for brands, raised a $140M Series B led by Summit, after an $18M Series A in 2019, and says it has ~1.5M customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22

A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22 AI

Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22 Immigration

Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22

Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-21 Google Paul Graham

OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-19 AI

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18

US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 China

OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and “occasional resource unavailability” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18

Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that “enhance AI safety” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 Startup AI

Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 Instagram

Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI

xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI chatbot

Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 India Startup

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent tool for terminals that links AI models with local code and computing tasks, like moving files (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI

Patreon plans to test livestreaming within its mobile app and on the web with select users this week ahead of a wider rollout in summer 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 Mobile

SEC filing: AMD estimates new US export rules for its MI308 chips to China will cost ~$800M in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves charges (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 China AMD

Data orchestration startup Hammerspace, which counts Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Palantir, and the DOD as clients, raised $100M, sources say at a $500M+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 Startup Tesla Nvidia

Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 Google AI

xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 chatbot

In the first update to its Preparedness Framework since 2023, OpenAI says it “may adjust” its own safeguards if rival frontier labs release “high-risk” AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 AI

Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-16 Google

UK data-based car insurance startup Marshmallow raised $90M, roughly split 50-50 in equity and debt, at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1.25B in September 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-15 Startup Insurance Equity

OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-15

OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-15

Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-14 AI Nvidia

According to a recently published support page, OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-14 AI

Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-14

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