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Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to “reason over the most complex problems” in fields like programming and physics (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 Google programming

Decart, which helps organizations train AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 India IPO Startup

Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 Google Mobile

Lens, a high-performance layer-2 blockchain developed by Avara for consumer apps, raised $31M led by Lightspeed Faction, and plans to launch Lens v3 in Q1 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 Blockchain

GitHub makes its Copilot free in VS Code, with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 GitHub

Shares in MobiKwik surged as much as 82% on their trading debut, after the Indian digital payments firm, which claims to have 161M users, raised $69M in its IPO (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 India IPO

India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 India Retail

OpenAI says it's rolling out o1 to its API for some developers, announces new versions of GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini as part of the Realtime API, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18

Amid the AI boom, non-AI companies that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in securing their Series B, even with decent revenue growth (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 AI

Atlanta-based Slip Robotics, a robot-as-a-service startup whose robots speed up the loading and unloading of truck trailers, raised a $28M Series B led by DCVC (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Startup Robot

Google launches Gemini Code Assist tools that lets the AI code completion product access real-time data and information from outside apps (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Google AI

The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Facebook

Toronto-based Hostaway, which offers vacation rental management tools, raised $365M led by General Atlantic at a $925M valuation, after raising $175M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Toronto

Turkish startup Agave Games, developer of Find the Cat, which has 10M+ downloads since its August 2024 release, raised an $18M Series A at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Startup

Chinese shopping app Temu was the year's most downloaded free app in the US, for the second year in a row, followed by Threads, TikTok, ChatGPT, and then Google (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 China Google

YouTube adds a tool to let creators give authorization to several third parties, including Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta, to train on their videos (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Amazon Apple YouTube Nvidia

DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 AI

Reports: Israel-based Paragon, maker of Pegasus-rival Graphite, sold to US PE firm AE Industrial for ~$500M, a sum that may grow if profitability goals are hit (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Israel

BlackBerry sells its beleaguered cybersecurity business, Cylance, to Arctic Wolf for $160M, after paying $1.4B to acquire Cylance in 2018 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17

Telegram says it has removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, as its moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-16

Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $112M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-15

xAI begins rolling out an upgraded version of Grok-2 that is “three times faster” to all X users, adds a “Grok button” to X posts, and reduces API pricing (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-14

Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with added controls for access and data management, as part of Agentspace (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-14 Google

OpenAI says the three hour ChatGPT outage on Wednesday was caused by a telemetry service it deployed to collect Kubernetes metrics (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-14

The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinions for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-14

Meta releases Meta Video Seal, an AI tool to apply imperceptible watermarks to AI-generated videos as well as a hidden message to determine the video's origins (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13 AI

Sources: Yahoo laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50 people from its 200-strong cybersecurity team in 2024, as it outsources its “red team” under new CTO (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13 Yahoo

OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users, letting them share their screen or video from phone cameras with ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-13

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