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Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Blockchain

Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is “the most cost-efficient” model on the market, via Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Amazon AI

Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Startup

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling young users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 Facebook

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 IBM AI

Meta VP of generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained its Llama 4 models on test sets, saying Meta “would never do that” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-8 AI

Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-6 AI Instagram WhatsApp

Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-6 Facebook Instagram

SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 India

Turbine, which allows LPs to borrow funds secured by their position in venture funds, emerges from stealth with a $13M Series A and an $8.75M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5

Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 Amazon

GitHub announces “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 AI GitHub

Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10 for 1M output tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, its priciest model yet (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5 Google

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-5

Google hasn't released safety reports for its latest models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.0 Flash, raising concerns that it is prioritizing speed over transparency (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-4 Google

Midjourney begins rolling out V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI's new image tool (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-4 AI

A researcher says changes in X's web app show X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles with prices ranging from $10,000 to $500,000+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-4

OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature's March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-4 India

Automattic lays off 16% of staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become “more agile and responsive”; Automattic website listed 1,744 employees ahead of the layoffs (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-3 Layoffs

Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-3 Education

Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 IoT Germany Startup AI Vietnam

In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2

Similarweb: Gemini's web app had 10.9M average daily visits in March, up 7.4% MoM; Sensor Tower: Claude and Gemini saw activity jump after flagship model debuts (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 Sensor

TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8, directing users to Lemon8, a similar ByteDance-owned app (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 Instagram

OpenAI's new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, is now available to all users; Altman last week mentioned a limit of three images per day for free-tier users (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1 AI

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