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Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup

YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 AI

Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup AI Netflix

Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-30

Kaspersky confirms that it has replaced the antivirus software on its US customers' computers with software called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-28 U.S.

A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Energy Startup AI

Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27

Google updates its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM to let users get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and create sharable AI audio discussions (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Google AI YouTube

The Tor Project merges with Tails, a portable Linux-based OS focused on user privacy and anonymity; Tails says it had “outgrown its existing structure” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Linux

Sources: Peak XV, the largest India-focused VC fund, has realized ~$1.2B in exits since its Sequoia separation in June 2023, selling stakes in ~12 companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 India

A look at some exciting startups from Day 1 of YC's AI-heavy S24 Demo Day, including estate planning startup Elayne and clinical trial startup Baseline (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup AI

Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Mobile Tokyo

OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26

Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Android

Over 100 companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Google Amazon Microsoft AI Apple

Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 AI Ban

Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Facebook AI Instagram

Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 AI Instagram

Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup Slack Shopify

London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 IOS London

Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25

Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Germany Italy Mobile Spain Philippines Reddit Brazil

Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Robot

Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 WordPress

The world's second largest money transfer company, MoneyGram, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25

Microsoft debuts Correction in preview as part of the Azure AI Content Safety API; the service tries to find and revise AI-generated text that's factually wrong (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Microsoft AI

OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Education

Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24 Equity

GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code starting on October 29 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24 GitHub

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