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A look at some exciting startups from Day 1 of YC's AI-heavy S24 Demo Day, including estate planning startup Elayne and clinical trial startup Baseline (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup AI

Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Mobile Tokyo

OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26

Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Android

Over 100 companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Google Amazon Microsoft AI Apple

Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 AI Ban

Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Facebook AI Instagram

Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 AI Instagram

Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup Slack Shopify

London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 IOS London

Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25

Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Germany Italy Mobile Spain Philippines Reddit Brazil

Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Robot

Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 WordPress

The world's second largest money transfer company, MoneyGram, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25

Microsoft debuts Correction in preview as part of the Azure AI Content Safety API; the service tries to find and revise AI-generated text that's factually wrong (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Microsoft AI

OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-25 Education

Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24 Equity

GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code starting on October 29 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24 GitHub

WP Engine sends a “cease and desist” letter to Automattic to “retract false, harmful, and disparaging statements”, after Matt Mullenweg called it a “cancer” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24

US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find UltraAV, an entirely different AV suite, remotely installed on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV's owner (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24

TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-24 WordPress

At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-22 Google AI Education

Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: deliberate design that uses tap to trigger the device, can manage multiple speakers in 59 languages, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-21

Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; Black Forest raised a $31M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-21

Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from 110K prior to the ban (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-21 Ban Brazil

Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210M Series B led by hedge fund Hornbill Capital at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1.1B valuation in June 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-20 India Startup

Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a marketing platform to help nonprofits increase donations, raised $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-20 Equity CRM

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