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TikTok is testing a streaks feature, which has become a status symbol on Snapchat, with select users in limited markets in order to increase engagement (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-7 Snapchat

Meta rolls out its Meta Verified program for WhatsApp Business users in Brazil, India, Indonesia and Colombia, with subscription plans starting from $14 a month (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-7 India WhatsApp Indonesia Brazil

Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-7 AI Instagram

Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, starting in winter 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-7 Google

Tektonic AI, which wants to build generative AI agents for automating business operations, raised a $10M seed led by Point72 Ventures and Madrona Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-7 AI

Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at $100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 India Amazon Asset

Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200+ new countries, including Brazil and the UK, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 Google Brazil

Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 AI

Amazon's robotaxi unit Zoox plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles this summer in Austin and Miami, the company's fourth and fifth public testing cities (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 Amazon Autonomous Car

Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 AI

Wix unveils an AI-powered app builder that creates iOS and Android apps from descriptions provided by users in a chat, coming to its $99/month Branded App plan (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-6 Android IOS AI

Tobiko, which offers a dbt-compatible data transformation service to help teams manage data, raised a $4.5M seed and $17.3M Series A led by Theory Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-5

SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-5 IPO

Switzerland-based Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $27M Series B led by Forestay (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-5 Deep Learning Switzerland

GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-5 AI

Austria-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raised an $80M Series C led by Brighton Park, after a $47M Series B in May 2022, and reports 200K+ users (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-4 Austria

AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $130M at a $3B valuation, up from $2B in November 2021, taking its total funding to $340M (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-4 Startup AI

OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-4

Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-4 mortgage Startup AI

Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-4 Instagram

X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content provided it is properly labeled and “not prominently displayed” (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-3 AI

Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market (techcrunch.com)
2024-6-1 India

European Commission designates Temu as a “very large online platform” and says the company will have to comply with DSA rules by the end of September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Europe

Spain's data protection regulator AEPD bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook and Instagram in the country, citing GDPR concerns (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Facebook Instagram Spain GDPR

Stripe says it will temporarily move to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India, as it navigates the country's evolving regulatory landscape (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 India

Researchers claim just 2,107 US voters, mostly older, white Republican women, accounted for spreading 80% of the fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Twitter Republican

Valar Labs, which has developed AI models to help predict bladder cancer treatment outcomes, raised a $22M Series A led by DCVC and a16z (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 AI

Spotify has initiated a refund process for its discontinued Car Thing dashboard device, as consumers file a lawsuit claiming Spotify misled them (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Spotify

On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Paul Graham

Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Asset

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