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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

Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates are posting “engagement bait” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-8 Startup Racism

A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding the crowdsourced LLM benchmark platform, including biases, lack of transparency, and commercial ties (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 chatbot

Mangomint, which makes software for salon and spa operations, raised a $35M Series B led by Altos Ventures and says it has processed $1B+ in transactions (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Roblox plans a generative AI tool to let creators make 3D scenes using text prompts, and announces new social features like Party and Music Charts (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 AI

Meta plans to enable group chats between WhatsApp/Messenger and third-party apps in 2025 and voice and video calling with such apps in 2027, to comply with DMA (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 WhatsApp

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 10M paid subscribers and removes the People Nearby feature, saying it had “issues with bots and scammers.” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which provides data management and protection services, for ~$1.9B in cash; Own was valued at $3.35B as of August 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Salesforce

Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Database Microsoft Facebook Snapchat Instagram Reddit

Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in “early access” to select customers in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Google

YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect creators from having their likeness copied and plans to give creators controls over AI scraping (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 AI YouTube

The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Europe AI

YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 YouTube

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 AI

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Seattle

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees to acquire corporate spending software company Airbase for $325M; Airbase was valued at $600M in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Android Google Open Source

X launches a new TV app “on several app stores” in beta, as part of an effort to court advertisers, creators, and partners around a “video-first platform” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 GitHub

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inflection team doesn't cause competition concerns, but designates the deal as a merger (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Microsoft

Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist that evolves through the day depending on listening habits, globally for free and adds support for 14 languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Spotify

Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI Sweden London

Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Ban Brazil

Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by default, only followers you follow back can leave comments (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Instagram

Spotter launches Spotter Studio, a set of AI tools that analyze 2B+ top performing YouTube videos to help creators brainstorm video ideas, and more, for $49/mo. (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI YouTube

Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 retail and business customers, raised a $22M Series A led by Altos, bringing its total funding to $30M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3 Retail P2P Dubai

Doccla, whose “virtual bed” tech helps doctors monitor patients remotely, raised a $46M Series B led by Lakestar after raising a $17M Series A in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3

A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art marketplace with 25M users who created ~1B images; source: it has $4M annualized revenue with a ~50% margin (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-2

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