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A hacker says he tricked ChatGPT into giving detailed instructions to make a fertilizer bomb, by getting it to “play a game” and create a sci-fi fantasy world (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Hacker

The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Apple

Meta, TikTok and Snap pledge to participate in program to combat suicide and self-harm content (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13

Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage their data to comply with regulations, raised $40M at a ~$150M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU users for training foundational AI models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 Google AI Ireland GDPR

WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small businesses in India, starting at ~$8/month, and gives them the ability to send customized messages to customers (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 India WhatsApp

Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 Google AI

Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 AI Adobe

Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compliance software for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $84M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API “soon” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 GitHub

Sergey Brin says he works at Google “pretty much every day” and that recent AI algorithmic improvements are “outpacing the increased compute” put into models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 Google AI

MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 MariaDB

Paris-based Neat, which helps other companies sell insurance products to their own customers, raised a €50M Series A, with ~60% in equity and the rest in debt (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 Insurance Equity Paris

Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10 AI

Apple announces two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming Sept. 20 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10 Apple

Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10

Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and a $150M credit line (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-9

Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-9

Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is “coming soon” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-8 Brazil

Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates are posting “engagement bait” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-8 Startup Racism

A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding the crowdsourced LLM benchmark platform, including biases, lack of transparency, and commercial ties (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 chatbot

Mangomint, which makes software for salon and spa operations, raised a $35M Series B led by Altos Ventures and says it has processed $1B+ in transactions (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Roblox plans a generative AI tool to let creators make 3D scenes using text prompts, and announces new social features like Party and Music Charts (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 AI

Meta plans to enable group chats between WhatsApp/Messenger and third-party apps in 2025 and voice and video calling with such apps in 2027, to comply with DMA (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 WhatsApp

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 10M paid subscribers and removes the People Nearby feature, saying it had “issues with bots and scammers.” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which provides data management and protection services, for ~$1.9B in cash; Own was valued at $3.35B as of August 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Salesforce

Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Database Microsoft Facebook Snapchat Instagram Reddit

Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in “early access” to select customers in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Google

YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect creators from having their likeness copied and plans to give creators controls over AI scraping (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 AI YouTube

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