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OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-6 Startup AI Apple

Facebook is revamping its classic Poke feature to be easier to use and include gamification elements similar to Snapchat and TikTok as it courts younger users (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-5 Facebook Snapchat

Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-5 AI Logistics

Orchard Robotics, which uses cameras and AI to help fruit growers manage crops more precisely, raised a $22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 AI Robot

Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Startup

Roblox will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, ID verification, and parental consent (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4

Google rolls out new Android and Pixel features: Material 3 Expressive design for Pixel 6 and newer models, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Android Google

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery” (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-3 AI

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-3 WordPress AI

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-2 Europe Interview

Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-2 AI Tokyo

WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of “specific targeted users” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30 IOS Apple WhatsApp

Meta says it'll update AI chatbot rules to prevent inappropriate chats with teens and let teens access only AI characters that promote education and creativity (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30 AI chatbot Education

Mastodon says it does not “have the means to apply age verification” to its services and it's up to server admins to observe local laws in places they operate (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-30

Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29 India Google AI Intelligence

Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 AI

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 Google AI

Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Browser Chrome

YouTube rolls out Hype, which lets users boost creators with under 500K subscribers via a hype button that gives videos points, in the US and 38 other countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 YouTube

Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Google

Google says NotebookLM's Video Overviews now support 80 languages, and Audio Overviews now provide more detailed non-English summaries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-26 Google

xAI releases the weights of Grok 2 on Hugging Face, under the Grok 2 Community License Agreement; Musk says Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-25

OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-24 Equity

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including “Taste Match” playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23 YouTube Spotify

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

X removes the ability for free-tier developers to like posts and follow users via its API to “protect the platform from spam, bots, and manipulative activities” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 India Ban

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

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