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The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 Samsung Apple

Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered business coaching and performance analytics services, raised a $22.5M Series A led by PJC (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-15 AI

A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 China AI

Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts for kids under 13 on family plans in select markets, including Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 New Zealand Sweden Spotify

Meta restarts efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its UK users, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-14 Facebook AI Instagram

Apple to allow iPad users in the EU to install alternative app stores, starting with iPadOS 18 launch on September 16 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Apple iPad

In a provisional ruling, the CMA says Vodafone and Three's planned $19B merger could lead to higher prices, diminished service, and reduced investment in the UK (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13

The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to fight AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Microsoft AI Adobe

At an Acquired podcast event, Zuckerberg said he's done with apologizing and his biggest mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Zuckerberg

OpenAI claims that in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, o1 correctly solved 83% of the problems, while GPT-4o solved only 13% (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Mathematics

A hacker says he tricked ChatGPT into giving detailed instructions to make a fertilizer bomb, by getting it to “play a game” and create a sci-fi fantasy world (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Hacker

The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13 Apple

Meta, TikTok and Snap pledge to participate in program to combat suicide and self-harm content (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-13

Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage their data to comply with regulations, raised $40M at a ~$150M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU users for training foundational AI models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 Google AI Ireland GDPR

WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small businesses in India, starting at ~$8/month, and gives them the ability to send customized messages to customers (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 India WhatsApp

Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 Google AI

Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12 AI Adobe

Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compliance software for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $84M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-12

Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API “soon” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 GitHub

Sergey Brin says he works at Google “pretty much every day” and that recent AI algorithmic improvements are “outpacing the increased compute” put into models (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 Google AI

MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 MariaDB

Paris-based Neat, which helps other companies sell insurance products to their own customers, raised a €50M Series A, with ~60% in equity and the rest in debt (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-11 Insurance Equity Paris

Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10 AI

Apple announces two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming Sept. 20 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10 Apple

Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-10

Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and a $150M credit line (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-9

Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-9

Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is “coming soon” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-8 Brazil

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