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Sources: Apple and Google removed over six VPN apps, including Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, from their Indian app stores after the government issued removal orders (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-3 India Google Apple VPN

Spotify debuts a Partner Program in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, letting popular podcast hosts monetize video content, after announcing it in November (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-3 Australia Canada Spotify

Thomson Reuters acquires Michigan-based tax automation company SafeSend in an all-cash transaction valued at $600M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-3 Tax

Telegram rolls out a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search filters, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-3

In 2024, warning calls about catastrophic AI risks were drowned out by the tech industry's promotion of a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-2 AI

Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the company's aggressive plans for 2025, including competing with prediction markets like Kalshi (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-2

OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-2

St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing the latter at ~CA$1.8B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-1 Canada

India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payments network, providing relief to Google Pay and PhonePe (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-31 India Google

India removes a 100M user cap on WhatsApp Pay, letting Meta roll out the mobile payments service to all of its 500M+ users in the country (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-31 India Mobile WhatsApp

Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-31 China

Source: accounting startup Bench, which had raised $100M+ and abruptly shut down last week, will be acquired by Employer.com for an undisclosed price (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-31 Startup

The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into IBM's planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp; the US FTC has been investigating it since July (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-31 IBM

DeepSeek-V3 sometimes identifies itself as ChatGPT when asked which model it is; some speculate that its training datasets may contain text generated by ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-28

Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-27 Mobile

OpenAI's o3 performance on benchmarks suggests that test-time compute is the next best way to scale AI models, raising new questions about costs and usage (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-24 AI

Balderton Capital and Dealroom: European AI startups attracted 25% of the region's VC funding, or ~$13.7B, in 2024, compared to 15% in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-24 Europe Startup AI

X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23

OpenAI details “deliberative alignment”, a new method it used to make o1 and o3 “think” about its safety policy before responding, to improve overall alignment (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23

Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23 Trump AI

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them early next year (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-21

Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-21 Apple

Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20

Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 GitHub

Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20

YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 India YouTube

Backflip, which is building AI models that can produce 3D designs using text, sketches, or photos as prompts, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NEA and a16z (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to “reason over the most complex problems” in fields like programming and physics (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 Google programming

Decart, which helps organizations train AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 India IPO Startup

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