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Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-31 WordPress

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Philippines

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Robot

Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 AI

YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Google YouTube

Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Android IOS

Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Windsurf, since debuting an AI tool in 2024 to automate general ledger systems (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-29 AI

Instacart appoints Chief Business Officer Chris Rogers as its new CEO, effect August 15, replacing Fidji Simo, who left to become OpenAI's CEO of Applications (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28

SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Startup AI

Anthropic is rolling out voice mode in beta for its Claude mobile apps, available in English; free users can expect 20-30 voice messages before hitting a limit (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Mobile

Apple says its App Store blocked $9B+ in fraudulent transactions over the past five years, with $2B in just 2024, and rejected ~2M risky app submissions in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Apple

SpAItial, which is building text-to-3D environment generation tools, raised a $13M seed led by Earlybird and plans to license its foundation model to developers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-27

Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-25 AI

RevenueCat, which offers tools for devs to add subscriptions to their apps, raised a $50M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing the company at $500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24

OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for initial comments during a quarterly call; Klarna CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings earlier this week (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Apollo Research, which Anthropic partnered with to test Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Shopify launches new AI tools, including one for setting up storefronts and another for creating elements like banners, and upgrades its AI assistant Sidekick (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI Shopify

Epic v. Apple: Spotify says its recent update supporting web payments has resulted in “a significant increase in iOS users upgrading to a Premium subscription” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 IOS Apple Spotify

Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 Google AI

Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Google launches SynthID Detector, a verification portal that lets users upload files and tries to identify if they contain content made with Google AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Google announces Video Overviews is coming soon to NotebookLM, to turn dense multimedia, like raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google

Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent, to Google's AI Ultra plan, and brings its capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Google says Project Astra will power new capabilities in Search, including a new Search Live feature, as well as in the Gemini AI app and third-party products (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Gravitee, which offers self-hosted and SaaS API management tools, raised a $60M Series C led by Sixth Street, taking its total funding to $125M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 SaaS

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