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Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times, up from 1B downloads in March and 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

Helsinki-based IXI, which is building low-power glasses that can autofocus to a user's prescription, emerges from stealth and raised a $36.5M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29

Hugging Face releases SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects, costing $100 to $500 depending on the supplier (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 Robot

Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 Alibaba AI

OpenAI says users made over a billion web searches in ChatGPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1-800-ChatGPT to get up-to-date search results (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 WhatsApp

Tel Aviv-based Lightrun, an observability platform that uses AI to identify and debug code in production, raised a $70M Series B co-led by Accel and Insight (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-28 AI

Lagos-based OmniRetail, which digitizes order management for manufacturers, distributors, and others, raised a $20M Series A, taking its total funding to $38M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-28

Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-27 Europe Asia

OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26

Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Facebook Zuckerberg

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Fintech Startup

Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-25

VW and Uber unveil an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service using ID. BUZZ vehicles in US cities over the next decade, starting in LA in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Uber

Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Adobe

Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Tesla

OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Endor Labs, which scans AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, raised a $93M Series B, taking its total funding to $163M, and says it performs 1M+ weekly scans (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 London CISO

Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, a new AI video generation model in closed beta that animates characters in diverse styles and voices, including human-like and 2D (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany's leading legal publisher (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 Germany AI

Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23

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

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