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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the service will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an AI experiment in r/ChangeMyView (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Reddit

WisdomAI, which offers AI-powered data analytics from structured, unstructured, and “dirty” data, launches with a $23M seed led by Coatue Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI

At Stripe Sessions, the company announced an AI foundation model for payments, plans for stablecoin-powered accounts, a recent migration with Nvidia, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Nvidia

Anthropic launches web search on its API for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, 3.5 Sonnet, and 3.5 Haiku at $10/1K searches, giving the models access to up-to-date information (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8

Figma releases AI-powered tools to take on Canva and Adobe: Figma Sites for creating sites, Figma Make for app prototypes, and Figma Buzz for marketing assets (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Adobe Asset

Netflix unveils its ChatGPT-powered search that lets users express preferences using natural phrases, to be rolled out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 IOS Netflix

Microsoft says it will support Google's Agent2Agent spec, known as A2A, in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio and will join A2A's working group on GitHub (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 Google Microsoft AI GitHub

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to create and run mobile game marketing content, emerges from stealth and raised $27M, including a $15M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 Mobile AI

Mistral releases Mistral Medium 3, which it says focuses on efficiency without compromising performance, for $0.40 per 1M input and $20.80 per 1M output tokens (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8

Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in both AI- and human-generated code, raised a $60M Series B led by DTCP and says it scans 100M+ lines per day (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 AI

Amsterdam-based neobank Finom raised €92.7M from General Catalyst and says it serves 100K+ SMBs in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands

Melbourne-based Blinq, which lets users create custom digital business cards and sync contacts with CRM systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Touring Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 Melbourne CRM

Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai's robotaxis on Uber's platform, starting with a launch in “a key market in the Middle East” in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 China Uber AI

Patreon rolls out an updated version of its iOS app that lets users make purchases via the web in addition to using in-app purchases (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 IOS

News reader Particle launches on the web, featuring news headlines and AI summaries, key quotes, links to sources, and reader questions answered by AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 AI

Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-7 AI

Spotify rolls out a new “plays” metric for podcasts that shows users and creators how many times people have actively listened to or watched an episode (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6 Spotify

Orca AI, which offers an autonomous shipping navigation service based on a dataset of 80M+ nautical miles, raised a $72.5M Series B, after raising $23M in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6 AI

Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi service to 15 more cities over the next five years, including in Europe, after a December 2024 launch in Abu Dhabi (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6 Europe Uber

Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6

Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6 Startup AI

OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-6

An interview with Phillip Koskinas, the head of anti-cheat at Riot Games, on the various strategies the company employs to combat cheaters and cheat developers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-5 Interview

Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an “AI scientist”, launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-3 AI

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-3 AI Instagram

MoviePass launches Mogul, a daily fantasy sports-inspired, blockchain-based platform for movie buffs, and says over 400K people have signed up for early access (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-2 Blockchain

Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-2

Data integration company Fivetran acquires Census, which helps companies move data out of databases and into operational tools and was valued at $630M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-2

On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Facebook WhatsApp Zuckerberg

Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for edge app developers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Microsoft

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