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Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago

Finix, a “payments infrastructure” startup that became a payment processor like Stripe in 2023, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $208M (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago Startup

Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify and fix IT problems, raised a $25M Series A co-led by Costanoa, Decibel, and Paladin Capital (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup Aerodome, sources say for $300M+; both are a16z-backed and have raised $680M+ and $28M respectively (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Startup Drone

Google makes SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, generally available (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Google AI

TikTok brings its STEM feed to all users in the US, the UK, and Ireland by default to help find educational content, after launching the feed to under-18 users (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Ireland

Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23

Paytm receives regulatory approval to resume adding UPI payments users, following an eight-month Reserve Bank of India's restrictions on many of its operations (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23 India

Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23 AI

Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23

WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-23 WhatsApp

Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 Instagram Zuckerberg

Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NTTVC, Z47, and Nexus Venture Partners (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 AI

Meta is testing the use of facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to enable faster recovery of compromised accounts on Facebook and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 Facebook Instagram Facial Recognition

Ireland adopts an Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, effective next month (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 YouTube Instagram Ireland

xAI launches an API for “grok-beta” priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens; it is unclear which AI model “grok-beta” might be (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-22 AI

In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-19 WordPress California

Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-19 Microsoft

Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 AI

Abel, founded by Daniel Francis, or @growing_daniel, to build AI that uses body cam footage and dispatch call data to fill out police reports, raised a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 AI

Google adds an option for NotebookLM users to customize audio summaries, launches a NotebookLM Business pilot, and says 80K+ organizations use the tool (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Google

On Apple Pay's 10th anniversary, Apple adds support for Klarna in the US and UK and plans to expand installment loan options and add reward redemptions (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Apple Apple Pay

Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after raising its bid to $7.2B; Squarespace sells restaurant reservation service Tock to Amex for $400M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-18 Equity

Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Startup

Apple is expanding Apple Business Connect to let businesses, including those without a physical location, manage their presence in Mail, Phone, and Tap to Pay (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 Apple

Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17 AI

The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-17

Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 CISO

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