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Sanas, whose tech changes call center workers' accents in real time using AI, raised a $65M Series B at a $500M+ valuation led by Quadrille and Teleperformance (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AI

Mistral's Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store's top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT had 500K in just six days (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 France

Uber ditches commissions in favor of fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 India Uber

Filings: US Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleads guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from them last year (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AT&T

Instagram updates direct messages with translation in 99 languages, scheduling and pinning tools, music-sharing features, and more, on iOS and Android first (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 Android IOS Instagram

Augury, which uses AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines, raised a $72.5M Series F, potentially rising to ~$100M, led by Lightrock at a $1B+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 AI

French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-20 France Startup

Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 IOS Google Apple

Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI Creation Model, which lets gig workers configure an AI model trained on their work and set prices to use it (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in December 2022 as a TikTok-style feed in its app for discovering products (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 Amazon

Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadcasts for 30 days instead of storing them indefinitely and will remove videos currently older than 30 days (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 Facebook

Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and customer service tools, raised an $80M Series C led by Sapphire at a $1.2B valuation, up from $615M in July 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok3's launch (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18

xAI launches Grok3 beta and Grok3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning capabilities, trained on “10x” more compute than Grok2, for X Premium+ subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18 AI

An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building the “next Nextdoor”, not licensing data to AI firms for now, his relationship with Bill Gurley, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18 Interview AI

Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18

A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-17 Budget

The death of former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji was deemed suicide in a new autopsy report, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled speculation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-16

Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises enforce policies in real-time for privileged access to systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Brightmind (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 Startup

Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book licensing efforts in April 2023 after contacting publishers and seeing “slow uptake” and logistical setbacks (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 AI

Meta announces Project Waterworth, a subsea cable project that will span over 50,000 km and connect five continents (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15

Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it says is a “source of concern” for some and “highly requested” by others (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15

Instagram is testing a dislike button for comments; Instagram will not show a dislike count and dislikes may eventually count toward ranking comments (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 Instagram

The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic's Claude in public services (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 AI

OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14

Sources: Italian spyware maker SIO created malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other apps; a researcher says they were likely used in Italy (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Android Italy WhatsApp

Identity security company CyberArk acquires identity governance and administration platform Zilla Security for $165M in cash and an additional $10M “earn-out” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14

YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Google AI YouTube

EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Energy AI

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