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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

Anthropic raised an additional $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary cloud partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-23 Amazon

Texas AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to determine if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued WFA in August (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Texas

Brave Search introduces AI chat to let users ask follow-up questions to initial queries, bringing together capabilities of chat-first and search-first tools (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 AI

Spotify adds new audiobook features for Premium users: video clips up to 30 seconds long, Author Pages, and visuals that appear while users listen (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Spotify

Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 WhatsApp

Lightning AI, which lets customers fine-tune and run AI models in their preferred cloud environments, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $103M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 AI

Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources: the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-22 Startup

Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI's o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia's business moving forward (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 Nvidia

OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21

Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 China AI

Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-21 France Startup AI

SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 AI

Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Goldman Equity

Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Amazon Canada

Google ships the first developer preview of Android 16, far ahead of schedule vs. the past few years, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving partners more time (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Android Google

Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Google

Bluesky has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on Nov. 13; Appfigures: it's been #1 in US App Store since Nov. 13; Similarweb: its DAU gap with Threads is narrowing (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20

Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft Quantum

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 Europe IPO Startup

Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing “transparent” generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 AI

Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19

Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India Xiaomi

India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India WhatsApp

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Microsoft

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Mobile

OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15

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