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Google, Intel, Meta, and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote a new industry standard to connect AI accelerator chips (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Google Intel AI

SEC filing: Salespeople paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management service Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff raised $110M (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-30

Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-30 Instagram

Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-30 Startup Romania Insurance

Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-30 AI programming

Solutions by Text, which offers conversational messaging tools for businesses to let users pay bills and more via text, raised $110M, after raising $35M in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-29

YouTube's Playables, a collection of over 75 free games available on mobile and desktop, rolls out to all users (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-29 Mobile YouTube

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new “superalignment” team (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-29

Private equity firm Bridgepoint buys a majority stake in LumApps, used by ~700 organizations to build and provision comms and workforce apps, in a $650M deal (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-29 Equity

Google unveils new AI features for Chromebook Plus devices, says new Chromebook Plus users get a free year of Google One AI Premium, and updates old Chromebooks (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-28 Google AI

Dealroom: in 2023, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100B, and they raised €2.2B across 850+ funding rounds (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-28 Startup Spain

Data.ai: of the top 20 education apps in the US App Store, five are AI agents that help with school assignments, the two most popular of which are Chinese-owned (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-27 China AI Education

Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-26

Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high-jinks” of OpenAI “edge lords”, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-25 Elon Musk

Google announces plans to invest nearly $350M in Flipkart, as part of a nearly $1B funding round, about $600M of which came from Walmart in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-24 Google Walmart

Email: Foursquare lays off 105 employees as the company seeks to “streamline” its operations; source: layoffs represent about 25% of total company employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-24 Layoffs

A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK's July election (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-24 Google Apple

Lumos, which helps companies manage employees' identities and access to apps and systems, raised a $35M Series B led by Scale, taking its total funding to $65M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-24

Google details Umoja, the first fiber optic cable to directly connect Africa with Australia, starting in Kenya and running via the DRC, Zambia, and South Africa (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23 Australia Google Africa South Africa

LA-based Aerodome, which uses autonomous drones to help first responders get a view of problems like crimes and fires, raised a $21.5M Series A led by CRV (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23 Drone

Praktika, which lets users create personalized AI-powered avatars to make learning a language feel more natural, raised a $35.5M Series A led by Blossom Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23 AI

Google Pay now lets users see their card benefits and perks before selecting a card, use BNPL on more sites, and fill in card details through biometrics or PIN (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23 Google

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised a $35M Series B led by S3 Ventures, bringing its total raised to $68M (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23

Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet says she is leaving at the end of May for health reasons; Techstars co-founder and board chairman David Cohen will become the new CEO (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23

TikTok launches its Symphony AI suite for brands, using generative AI to let marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-23 AI Asset

Link-in-bio startup Linktree passes 50M users, up from 41M in December 2023 and 47M+ in March 2024, and launches a beta of its social commerce product (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-22 Startup

Paytm's parent One 97 Communications reports a $66.1M net loss in Q4, up from $20.11M in Q4 2023, on $272.3M revenue, as it grappled with a regulatory clampdown (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-22 4Q

WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' use of custom generative AI models and applies safeguards, raised a $27.5M Series A co-led by GV and Ballistic Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-22 AI

Minnesota lawmakers reach a compromise with Uber and Lyft, setting a floor for drivers' pay statewide at $1.28/mile and $0.31/minute, effective January 1, 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-22 Uber

Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-22 Microsoft GitHub

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