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Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud” (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Europe Google

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation” (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago WhatsApp

Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago

Google updates Wallet to let kids with Android smartphones tap to pay in stores in the US, the UK, Australia, Spain, and Poland under parental supervision (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Android Australia Google Spain Poland

Filing: Shopify says it is transitioning its US stock listing to the Nasdaq, nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Toronto Shopify

Stability AI releases Stable Virtual Camera, an AI model with a non-commercial use license that can create “immersive” 3D videos using up to 32 2D images (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 AI

GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised a $50M Series G at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $1.2B in 2021, and is on track for $2.4B in 2025 revenue (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 AI Logistics

CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Layoffs

AI coding assistant startup Graphite, now used by tens of thousands of staff at 500+ companies, raised an Accel-led $52M Series B; its revenue grew 20x in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Startup AI

Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Google chatbot

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Zuckerberg

Google launches new Search and Android health features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Android Google AI

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-18 San Francisco

Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-18

In an open letter, about 100 EU companies urge lawmakers to take “radical action” to cut reliance on foreign Big Tech by fostering a so-called “Euro stack” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-17

Some developers say licenses for “open” AI models like Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama have limits that restrict commercial use without fear of legal reprisal (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-17 Google AI

Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-16 AI

A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-16 Microsoft AI Salesforce

A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15 Startup AI

Orlando-based Worth, whose tech lets fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite SMBs by automating KYC, fraud verification, and more, raised a $20M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15

The DOJ says Rostislav Panev, who is accused of being a key developer for the LockBit ransomware gang, has been extradited from Israel to the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15 Israel

SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M, sources say to turn it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 AI

Flock Safety, maker of computer vision-enabled video surveillance tech for police and businesses, raised $275M at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4.8B a year ago (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14

OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US consider banning “PRC-produced” models that “violate user privacy and create security risks” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14

Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 Google AI

UiPath acquires Peak, which makes AI tools to optimize product inventory and pricing; Peak raised a total of $121M and reported revenue of just ~£9M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 AI

Omni, which offers data analysis tools, raised a $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth at a $650M valuation, bringing its total raised to $97M (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 Data Analysis

Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 India Xiaomi

Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13

In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 Google Mobile Apple Browser

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