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Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt” (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago

Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google would add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but offered no timeframe (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago Google

Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised $81M, files for Chapter 11, citing a “costly” lawsuit with FTV Capital (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago

Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI

OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI

xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with “reasoning” capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 mini costs $0.30/$0.50 (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago

Court document: NSO Group's spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims, India had 100 (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Mexico India WhatsApp

Tessell, which offers a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, raised a $60M Series B and plans to launch an AI-based conversational database management service (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Database AI

Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Facebook

Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago

YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI YouTube

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after a $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Startup

WordPress.com launches an AI website builder to help users create a website via its chat-style interface, available to WordPress users for free (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago WordPress AI

Reddit integrates Gemini into its conversational AI search tool Reddit Answers, in beta since December 2024, to improve search relevance and give quick answers (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI Reddit

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for “high-volume” and “real-time” applications, launching soon in Vertex AI (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google AI

Google Cloud Next: Google updates Gemini Code Assist to add agentic capabilities, including creating apps from product specifications in Google Docs, in preview (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google

Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, available in a 256-chip or a 9,216-chip cluster (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google

UK-based high-end fashion marketplace Lyst agrees to a $154M acquisition by Japan-based fashion and e-commerce company Zozo; Lyst was valued at $700M+ in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Japan

The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Android China

Rain, which offers an employer-integrated personal finance and earned wage access app, raised a $75M Series B led by Prosus at a $340M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago

Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Blockchain

Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is “the most cost-efficient” model on the market, via Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Amazon AI

Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as “Stripe for emerging markets”, raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Startup

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling young users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, and others (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Facebook

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago IBM AI

Meta VP of generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained its Llama 4 models on test sets, saying Meta “would never do that” (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago AI

An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago AI

Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago AI

Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago AI Instagram WhatsApp

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