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Tel Aviv-based Voyantis, which uses AI to predict a customer's future propensity and lifetime value for marketers, raised $41M, taking its total funding to $60M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI

Sydney-based Harrison.ai, which uses AI to analyze CT scans, X-rays, and pathology slides, raised a $112M Series C, after a ~$92.3M Series B in November 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 AI Sydney

Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its note-taking AI assistant with higher usage limits, to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-11 Google AI

Christie's plans to hold its first AI art auction beginning February 20; critics say the sale elevates AI tools trained on artists' works without their consent (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-9 AI

DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-8 Mathematics

Meta and UNESCO launch Language Technology Partner Program to collect speech recordings and transcriptions to aid the development of future openly available AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 AI

Swiggy's stock fell to $4.29 on February 6, below its $4.45 IPO price, after hitting $7.04 in December, as quarterly results showed Instamart lost marketshare (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 IPO

Customer service software startup Sprinklr cuts 500 jobs, ~15% of its workforce, citing weak business performance; C-level staff remain unaffected (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Startup

OpenAI updates o3-mini's chain of thought to make it easier for users “to understand how the model thinks”, available to both free and paid ChatGPT users (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7

Trump has proposed taxing carried interest as ordinary income in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, a policy that could sharply increase the tax bill for VCs (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Trump Tax Republican

Kelly Stonelake, a former Meta director who was at the company from 2009 to 2024, sues Meta, alleging sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7

GitHub announces updates for Copilot, including Vision for Copilot to generate interfaces, code, and alt text from a screenshot, photo, or a diagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 GitHub

Mistral releases iOS and Android apps and unveils several updates to its AI assistant Le Chat, including a $14.99 per month Pro tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Android IOS AI

Munich-based Avelios, which is developing a healthcare system covering EHR, billing, clinical records, and more, raised a €30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Munich

TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, raised $19M led by Intel Capital, taking its total funding to $21M, and claims 30 customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-7 Intel AI

XOi, whose software lets field technicians get info about the machines they need to fix, raises $230M from KKR and buys its rival Specifx for an undisclosed sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-6

AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington claim they trained an AI reasoning model, called s1, for under $50 in cloud compute credits (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-6 AI

Analysis: European AI startups raised $8B in 2024, with 70% going to seed to Series B rounds, led by startups in the UK, France, and Germany (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Germany France Europe Startup AI

Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M Series C led by Krafton, bringing its total funding to nearly $100M, a source says at a $700M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Robotics startup Figure is exiting its Feb. 2024 OpenAI deal, which aimed to develop AI models for robots, to focus on in-house AI after a “major breakthrough” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup AI Robot

Mark Zuckerberg says users on Threads can now make their custom feeds public and follow custom feeds made by others (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Zuckerberg

HR software startup Deel completes a sale of $300M secondary shares, bringing General Catalyst on as an investor, and says its ARR grew 70% YoY to $800M in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Memo: Cruise is laying off 50% of its staff, after GM cut funding to robotaxi operations and shifts its focus to tech like hands-free driver assistance (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5

ByteDance researchers demo OmniHuman-1, an AI system that is “easily heads and shoulders above previous deepfake techniques”, if ByteDance's clips are accurate (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 AI

Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised $235M led by Teachers' Venture Growth, after raising $300M from Summit Partners in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup Toronto

Self-driving truck startup Waabi partners with Volvo to develop and deploy autonomous trucks, starting with pilots in Texas and a launch in late 2025 or 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 Startup Volvo Texas

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal invests $230M in his Indian AI startup Krutrim, and plans to raise $1.15B from outside investors by 2026, to build local AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 India Startup AI

Meta describes what kinds of AI systems it may deem too risky to release, including ones that could aid in cyberattacks, and how such systems will be flagged (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 AI

The first ever native iPhone porn app, Hot Tub, arrives in the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, which was made possible by the DMA (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 iPhone

French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity risks, raised a $30M Series B, a source says at a $170M valuation, and had $10M in 2024 revenue (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 France Startup

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