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Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that “enhance AI safety” (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Instagram

Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI

xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI chatbot

Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago India Startup

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent tool for terminals that links AI models with local code and computing tasks, like moving files (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI

Patreon plans to test livestreaming within its mobile app and on the web with select users this week ahead of a wider rollout in summer 2025 (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Mobile

SEC filing: AMD estimates new US export rules for its MI308 chips to China will cost ~$800M in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves charges (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago China AMD

Data orchestration startup Hammerspace, which counts Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Palantir, and the DOD as clients, raised $100M, sources say at a $500M+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Startup Tesla Nvidia

Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Google AI

xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago chatbot

In the first update to its Preparedness Framework since 2023, OpenAI says it “may adjust” its own safeguards if rival frontier labs release “high-risk” AI (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Google

UK data-based car insurance startup Marshmallow raised $90M, roughly split 50-50 in equity and debt, at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1.25B in September 2021 (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Startup Insurance Equity

OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025 (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI Nvidia

According to a recently published support page, OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago AI

Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek” (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago

LiveKit, which offers open-source tools for building apps to transmit real-time audio and video, raised a $45M Series B; LiveKit also powers ChatGPT Voice Mode (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago

Appfigures: ChatGPT was the most downloaded app globally in March, excluding games, with 46M downloads across App Store and Google Play, its biggest month ever (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Google

Blue Water Autonomy, which says it is building a 100-ton autonomous naval ship, emerges from stealth with a $14M seed from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago

A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit opposing OpenAI's for-profit transition (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Elon Musk

OpenAI plans to retire GPT-4, launched in March 2023, from ChatGPT on April 30, to be “fully replaced” by GPT-4o; GPT-4 will remain available via OpenAI's API (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago

AI reasoning models cost more to benchmark, making it harder to independently verify claims; Artificial Analysis: OpenAI's o1 costs $2,767.05 to evaluate (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI

Madrid-based Jobandtalent, which connects gig workers with companies, raised a $103M Series F at a $1.5B valuation, down from its $500M Series E at $2.35B (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO Albert Saniger with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on human workers in the Philippines; Nate raised $50M+ (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI Philippines

BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it has an estimated 40M MAUs, including 5M in the US, and 85% of its users are Gen Z (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images and design ideas, and Canva Code, to create mini apps that can be integrated in designs (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI

OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a memory feature that references past chats for answers, rolling out to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and EEA (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

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