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Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Facebook Zuckerberg

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Fintech Startup

Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-25

VW and Uber unveil an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service using ID. BUZZ vehicles in US cities over the next decade, starting in LA in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Uber

Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Adobe

Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Tesla

OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Endor Labs, which scans AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, raised a $93M Series B, taking its total funding to $163M, and says it performs 1M+ weekly scans (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 London CISO

Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, a new AI video generation model in closed beta that animates characters in diverse styles and voices, including human-like and 2D (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany's leading legal publisher (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 Germany AI

Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new speech policies were “announced hastily” in January and asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23

Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-23 AI

Manychat, which offers social messaging tools for brands, raised a $140M Series B led by Summit, after an $18M Series A in 2019, and says it has ~1.5M customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22

A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22 AI

Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22 Immigration

Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-22

Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-21 Google Paul Graham

OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-19 AI

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18

US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 China

OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and “occasional resource unavailability” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18

Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that “enhance AI safety” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 Startup AI

Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-18 Instagram

Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI

xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI chatbot

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