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Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Europe Asia

OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago

Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Facebook Zuckerberg

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Fintech Startup

Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

VW and Uber unveil an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service using ID. BUZZ vehicles in US cities over the next decade, starting in LA in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Uber

Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Adobe

Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Tesla

OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and others (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Endor Labs, which scans AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, raised a $93M Series B, taking its total funding to $163M, and says it performs 1M+ weekly scans (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago London CISO

Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, a new AI video generation model in closed beta that animates characters in diverse styles and voices, including human-like and 2D (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany's leading legal publisher (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Germany AI

Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new speech policies were “announced hastily” in January and asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI

Manychat, which offers social messaging tools for brands, raised a $140M Series B led by Summit, after an $18M Series A in 2019, and says it has ~1.5M customers (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Immigration

Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Google Paul Graham

OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago

US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago China

OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and “occasional resource unavailability” (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that “enhance AI safety” (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Instagram

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