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World Labs, founded by Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that generates game-like, 3D scenes from a single image (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 AI

Intel says CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from its board; David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus are now co-CEOs (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 Intel

New York-based Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Craft Venture at a $900M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-3 New York

Bengaluru-based Swiggy expands 10-minute food delivery service Bolt to 400+ Indian cities and towns, and says it has partnered with 40K+ restaurants, like KFC (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-2 India KFC

AWS launches Data Transfer Terminal to let customers upload data to AWS Cloud by plugging in storage devices from a set of physical locations (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-2

AWS announces AWS Security Incident Response to help customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from various cyber incidents, including ransomware attacks (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-2

Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-1 Elon Musk

Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-1 Adobe Salesforce Black Friday

Salesforce says global online Thanksgiving day sales hit $33.6B, up 6% YoY, and $8.1B in the US, up 8% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $6.1B, up ~9% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-30 Adobe Salesforce

Sources: Meta plans to build a 40K+ km-long fiber optic subsea cable extending around the world, a project that could cost more than $10B (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-29

Filing: Zomato has raised $1B by issuing approximately 336.5M shares at about $3 each, its first major fundraise since its 2021 IPO (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-29 IPO

The EU ends its long-running probe into whether Amazon received illegal tax benefits worth €250M from Luxembourg, where Amazon's EU HQ is, after court losses (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-29 Amazon Tax

Alibaba releases QwQ-32B-Preview under an Apache 2.0 license and claims the “reasoning” AI model beats OpenAI's o1 models on the AIME and MATH tests (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28 Alibaba AI Mathematics

Ofcom: adults in the UK are now spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes daily online across devices, a jump from 3 hours and 41 minutes in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28

Spotify will no longer allow developers building new third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, such as song and artist recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28 Spotify

Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's “starter packs”, with profiles “handpicked by people on Threads” for users to follow (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-28

Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-27 Google Apple

A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-27

Cradle, which uses AI to help design proteins and says its SaaS model has proven popular, raised a $73M Series B led by IVP, after a $24M Series A in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 SaaS AI

Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 AI

Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Instagram

Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised a $26M Series A at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26

PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Startup AI

Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-26 Italy

Profiles of Teresa Ribera, Henna Virkkunen, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the three incoming EU commissioners in charge of key tech policy areas into 2029 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-25

Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-24 Startup

Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23

Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23

In 2025, Revolut plans to roll out branded ATMs with facial recognition, start offering mortgages, and ramp up its business offerings with BNPL options and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 Facial Recognition

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 India Startup

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