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OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for initial comments during a quarterly call; Klarna CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings earlier this week (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Apollo Research, which Anthropic partnered with to test Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Shopify launches new AI tools, including one for setting up storefronts and another for creating elements like banners, and upgrades its AI assistant Sidekick (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI Shopify

Epic v. Apple: Spotify says its recent update supporting web payments has resulted in “a significant increase in iOS users upgrading to a Premium subscription” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 IOS Apple Spotify

Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 Google AI

Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Google launches SynthID Detector, a verification portal that lets users upload files and tries to identify if they contain content made with Google AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Google announces Video Overviews is coming soon to NotebookLM, to turn dense multimedia, like raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google

Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent, to Google's AI Ultra plan, and brings its capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Google says Project Astra will power new capabilities in Search, including a new Search Live feature, as well as in the Gemini AI app and third-party products (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Gravitee, which offers self-hosted and SaaS API management tools, raised a $60M Series C led by Sixth Street, taking its total funding to $125M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 SaaS

Microsoft launches an open project called NLWeb to help devs add a “conversational interface” to their website in a few lines of code (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 Microsoft

Microsoft introduces Foundry Local, a service coming to Windows AI Foundry as well as macOS, to run AI models and tools on-device, using ONXX Runtime (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 Microsoft AI

What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-18 Android Google AI Google I/O

London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI London

SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, raised $53M, bringing its total funding to about $124M, per PitchBook (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Spotify adjusts its “plays” metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 Spotify

OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Following Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” responses on X, xAI says an “unauthorized modification” was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on May 14 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 Africa South Africa

Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 AI

Apple says a warning on EU App Store listings for apps with no IAP has been live since March 2024, and the EU told it to hold off on tweaks that Apple proposed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 Apple

Filing: Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

Pinterest apologizes for a recent wave of mass account bans, saying “an internal error led to over-enforcement” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

Cognichip, which is building a physics-informed foundational AI model to develop new chips, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by Lux and Mayfield (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 AI

Threads now lets creators add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

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