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Xscape, which develops data center interconnects using silicon photonics, raised a $44M Series A led by IAG Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $57M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16

Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Toyota

Analytics software provider Amplitude acquires Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly called CommandBar that raised $23.8M, a source says for $45M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Customer service AI startup Neuron7 raised a $44M Series B led by Smith Point Capital, and says it had 300% growth in ARR in 2023 and 65 full-time employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Instagram enhances its profile sharing QR codes with a “profile card”, showing profile info on the front and, using a flip animation, a QR code on the back (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-16 Instagram

Spotify starts rolling out music videos in beta for Premium subscribers in 85 additional markets, after introducing the feature in 12 markets earlier in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 Spotify

Scope3, which makes tools to monitor the carbon footprint of digital ads, raised $25M led by GV to expand into tools for tracking the environmental cost of AI (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

Numeric, which wants to use AI to automate accounting tasks, raised a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, five months after raising a $10M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the past year; it launched the marketplace in October 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 LinkedIn Freelance

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 Tesla Elon Musk

Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$59M (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI

Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 AI Instagram

Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15 WordPress

Florida-based data broker National Public Data, which was hacked and lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and more earlier in 2024, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-15

The Biden-Harris administration launches a Reddit White House account for news and info about federal government work; first posts are about Hurricane Helene (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-9 Reddit Hurricane

Snap says it is bringing ads to the Snapchat's main Chat tab for the first time and launches “Promoted Places” on Snap Map (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-9 Snapchat

Bellevue, WA-based Auger, founded by former Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI-powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-9 Amazon AI

Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers cloud-based AMD MI300X chips for AI workloads, raised $43M led by Nexus VP at a $100M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-9 AI Vegas AMD

MoneyGram says hackers “accessed and acquired” some customers' personal and transaction data, including SSNs, during a cyberattack between September 20 and 22 (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-8

Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems is a key example of backdoors' risks (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-8

Apple releases macOS 15.0.1, which “improves compatibility with third-party security software”, after the Sequoia's release broke some third-party tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-8 Apple

Filing: KoBold Metals, which uses ML to help it sift through datasets to identify large deposits of various metals, has raised $491M of a targeted $527M round (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-8

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS' AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investments in the open-source ecosystem, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-7 Interview AI chatbot

An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-5

Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-5 India Google AI

Meta launches a Gen-Z focused redesign for Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full screen video player in the Video tab (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-5 Facebook

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-4 Facebook

Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-4 WordPress

Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-4

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