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Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago India Ban

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago

Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago IPO

Mastodon plans to launch quote posts starting next week with safety features allowing users to control how they get quoted, to avoid “dunking” (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot California Senate

Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Google

YouTube rolls out multi-language audio after a two-year pilot, saying creators saw 25%+ of watch time coming from views in their video's non-primary language (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago YouTube

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the “right balance”, after exiting Mississippi (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

Reddit launches free tools for publishers within Reddit Pro to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Reddit

The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue, after saying it had hit $700M in March; it was valued at $22.5B in July (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around small squads of 10 to 15 people to compete better; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ paying users (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Snapchat

Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI California

Motion, which sells an integrated suite of AI agents for SMB, raised a $38M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI

OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Roblox launches text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs, and AI tools, including letting creators generate fully functional 3D objects from prompts, and more (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Apple

Facebook is revamping its classic Poke feature to be easier to use and include gamification elements similar to Snapchat and TikTok as it courts younger users (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Facebook Snapchat

Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI Logistics

Orchard Robotics, which uses cameras and AI to help fruit growers manage crops more precisely, raised a $22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI Robot

Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Startup

Roblox will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, ID verification, and parental consent (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

Google rolls out new Android and Pixel features: Material 3 Expressive design for Pixel 6 and newer models, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, and more (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Android Google

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery” (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago WordPress AI

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Europe Interview

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