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London-based Vitesse, which offers a treasury and payment platform for insurance companies, raised a $93M Series C led by KKR, after a $26M Series B in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Insurance London

London-based Zen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, raised a $37M Series B led by Round2 Capital and acquires Aquinas Education (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Education London

Volvo partners with Aurora Innovation to unveil Volvo VNL Autonomous, a self-driving truck which Aurora plans to use for freight hauling in the next few months (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Volvo

Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Android AI

UK's autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Autonomous Car

Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.2M in net revenue from May 13 through May 17, as net revenue grew 22% the day of the GPT-4o launch (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 Android IOS

The CAA partners with Veritone to build a storage system for A-list artists to store their digital assets and get compensated for the use of their AI likeness (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-21 AI Asset

A look at Overland AI, Potential, and other startups developing off-road self-driving systems, including for military operations, underground mining, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-20 Startup AI

Meta is working on an Instagram feature called Peek that lets users post unedited, authentic pictures that can only be viewed once (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-18 Instagram

Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-18 Reddit

Source: the Superalignment team was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute resources but requests for a fraction of that were often denied (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-18

The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 Microsoft AI

Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 Insurance

Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 Microsoft

X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17

TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 YouTube

Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17

Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 Google Education

Israel-based Agora, which develops real estate investment management software, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-17 Israel

Consumers protection groups across the EU file coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the DSA (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-16

Google announces a threat detection capability coming to Android that uses on-device AI to spot malware, analyzing apps' use of permissions and services (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-16 Android Google AI

Networking infrastructure startup Alkira, which lets users virtualize hybrid cloud assets, raised a $100M Series C led by Tiger, for $176M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-16 Startup Asset

Weka, which offers a parallel file system and data management tools for AI and HPC, raised a $140M Series E led by Valor Equity at a $1.6B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 AI Equity

Kentucky-based PayHOA, a bootstrapped startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations, raised a $27.5M Series A and reports 652K+ users (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Startup

AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany, and plans to invest €7.8B in the region by 2040 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Germany Europe

Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Google AI Browser

Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Facebook Instagram

David Sacks reveals Glue, an employee chat app designed around topic-based threads and embedded GenAI models, and opens a waitlist for companies to sign up (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15

Reddit launches new tools for its Ask Me Anything Q&A feature, including a dedicated AMA tab, support for up to five guest hosts, and promotional options (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Reddit

Apple says it prevented $7B+ in “potentially fraudulent transactions” on the App Store from 2020 through 2023, including $1.8B+ in 2023, down from $2B+ in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Apple

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