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Microsoft launches an open project called NLWeb to help devs add a “conversational interface” to their website in a few lines of code (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 Microsoft

Microsoft introduces Foundry Local, a service coming to Windows AI Foundry as well as macOS, to run AI models and tools on-device, using ONXX Runtime (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-20 Microsoft AI

What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-18 Android Google AI Google I/O

London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI London

SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, raised $53M, bringing its total funding to about $124M, per PitchBook (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Spotify adjusts its “plays” metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 Spotify

OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Following Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” responses on X, xAI says an “unauthorized modification” was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on May 14 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 Africa South Africa

Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 AI

Apple says a warning on EU App Store listings for apps with no IAP has been live since March 2024, and the EU told it to hold off on tweaks that Apple proposed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 Apple

Filing: Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

Pinterest apologizes for a recent wave of mass account bans, saying “an internal error led to over-enforcement” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

Cognichip, which is building a physics-informed foundational AI model to develop new chips, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by Lux and Mayfield (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16 AI

Threads now lets creators add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-16

Hedra, which offers a web-based video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model, raised a $32M Series A led by a16z, following a $10M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

YouTube previews new ad formats coming to the platform, including an enhanced shoppable connected TV offering with a new interactive product feed (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15 YouTube

OpenAI launches the Safety Evaluations Hub, a page showing how the company's models score on various tests for harmful content, jailbreaks, and hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of lidar manufacturer Luminar, resigns following an ethics inquiry and is replaced by former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Foxconn receives approval from India's cabinet to build a new $435M semiconductor plant, expected to open in 2027, in a joint venture with IT giant HCL Group (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15 India

OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 for Plus, Pro, and Team users in ChatGPT, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-15

Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised $100M led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, taking its total funding to $146.7M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Vegas AMD

WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, it spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay ~$3M-$30M to use Pegasus (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 WhatsApp

Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Amazon AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Google

Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Android Google

The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Dallas-based Bestow, which offers underwriting and insurance software to carriers, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Goldman Insurance

GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13

Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta's Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Google

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