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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not “necessarily true” that Bluesky will always be ad-free; ads could be “user intent-driven”, like running in search results (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

Google unveils PaliGemma 2 models, which can analyze images and generate captions describing “actions, emotions, and the overall narrative of the scene” (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Google

Microsoft rolls out Copilot Vision in preview to analyze text and images on webpages and answer queries, starting with some Copilot Pro users in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6 Microsoft

Chainalysis names co-founder Jonathan Levin as CEO, replacing co-founder Michael Gronager, who took a temporary personal leave of absence in October 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-6

London-based Lawhive, whose AI-based SaaS tools let small, “Main Street” law firms automate legal tasks, raised a $40M Series A co-led by GV and TQ Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 SaaS AI London

Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extract insights from customer feedback, raised a $20.8M Series A led by Canaan, bringing its total raised to $25M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5

Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its lead Raiza Martin, are leaving to launch a startup focused on building “a user-first AI product” (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google Startup AI

Cleerly, whose AI-powered imaging tech aims to identify early-stage heart disease, raised a $106M Series C extension, adding to the $223M it raised in July 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 AI

Axiado, which makes chips and apps to secure data centers, 5G base stations, and more from cyberattacks, raised a $60M Series C led by Maverick Silicon (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 5G

Some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by 2024's Spotify Wrapped, complaining about the inclusion of an AI podcast, a lack of detailed statistics, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 AI Spotify

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI

Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B via a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in early 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5

Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped via Google's AI summarization tool NotebookLM, and a Your Music Evolution feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI Spotify

In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 China Interview AI

AI companies' ads for AI tools show most don't really know what AI is good for, and the ways people use AI are discomfiting, automating tasks that make us human (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 AI

Online secondhand fashion marketplace ThredUP, whose market cap dropped from $1.3B at its 2021 IPO to just $60M in November 2024, divests its European business (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Europe IPO

Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps during major elections in the US, the UK, India, Indonesia, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 India AI Indonesia

Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Adobe Salesforce

AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Database Amazon

Trade business software provider ServiceTitan offers an IPO share price range at $52-$57 and plans to buy back the shares of its non-convertible preferred stock (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 IPO

AWS announces Nova models for Bedrock, including Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier text generating models, and Canvas and Reel models for image and video generation (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4

Amazon says third-party services like Zoom will soon be able to integrate Amazon Q Business into their services, and Q Developer gets a wide range of updates (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 Amazon

AWS launches Automated Reasoning checks to combat AI hallucinations, and Model Distillation, a tool to transfer the capabilities of a large model to a small one (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 AI

Cameo launches CameoX, allowing creators to self-enroll and expanding beyond A-list celebrities, after piloting the app since May 2023 and adding 31K creators (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4

AWS announces general availability of Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips; Trainium3 is slated for 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4

Yurts, which has contracts to develop generative AI for the US Army, Air Force, and others, raised a $40M Series B led by XYZ, taking its total raised to $58.4M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-4 AI

Early tests show Perplexity's AI shopping agent, which lets users make purchases within its app, sometimes takes hours to process purchases or runs into issues (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 AI

Hong Kong and Singapore-based KPay, which offers financial management tools to merchants and SMBs, raised a $55M Series A led by Apis Partners (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 Hong Kong Singapore

ChatGPT refuses to say some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling fault; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3

AWS details updates to its data centers, including liquid cooling for AI servers, more simplified electrical and mechanical designs for server racks, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 AI

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