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Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Facebook Instagram

SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago India

Turbine, which allows LPs to borrow funds secured by their position in venture funds, emerges from stealth with a $13M Series A and an $8.75M seed (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago

Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago Amazon

GitHub announces “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago AI GitHub

Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10 for 1M output tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, its priciest model yet (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago Google

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything” (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago

Google hasn't released safety reports for its latest models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.0 Flash, raising concerns that it is prioritizing speed over transparency (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Google

Midjourney begins rolling out V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI's new image tool (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI

A researcher says changes in X's web app show X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles with prices ranging from $10,000 to $500,000+ (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago

OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature's March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago India

Automattic lays off 16% of staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become “more agile and responsive”; Automattic website listed 1,744 employees ahead of the layoffs (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-3 Layoffs

Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-3 Education

Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 IoT Germany Startup AI Vietnam

In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2

Similarweb: Gemini's web app had 10.9M average daily visits in March, up 7.4% MoM; Sensor Tower: Claude and Gemini saw activity jump after flagship model debuts (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 Sensor

TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8, directing users to Lemon8, a similar ByteDance-owned app (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-2 Instagram

OpenAI's new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, is now available to all users; Altman last week mentioned a limit of three images per day for free-tier users (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1

Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1 AI

Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1 Seattle

Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-1 Amazon AI Browser

Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-30 Fintech Startup

Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-29 Google

PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-28 India Mobile

Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-28

Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-28 U.S. Latin America

Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-28 Nintendo

Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help users plan vacations, including trip idea updates to AI Overviews and hotel price drop alerts (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-28 Google AI

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