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After OpenAI released a new ChatGPT image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-27 AI

A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-27 China

Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-27 AI

YouTube says Shorts views will now be counted each time a video starts to play or replay, rather than only after being watched for a certain number of seconds (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-27 YouTube

Email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, in its second reorganization in just over a year (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-26

The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1% (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-26 AI

Quora's Poe launches its most affordable subscription plan for $5/month (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-26

OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-25

Sources say that 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been misrepresenting its customer base and financial performance (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-25 Startup AI

Arcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners, bringing total funding to $42M, and expands to home goods (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-25 AI

Berlin-based workflow automation startup n8n raised a €55M Series B, sources say on a valuation of ~€250M, and says it has 3K+ enterprise customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-25 Germany Startup

Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a “text-like” format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M seed led by Felicis (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-24 AI Browser

Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-22 AI Instagram

BuildOps, which develops software for commercial services contractors, raised a $127M Series C led by Meritech Capital at a $1B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-22

Report: North Korea is launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227 focused on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21 Korea AI Asset

Stockholm-based Evroc, which plans to build hyperscale data centers in Europe and an array of cloud services, raised a $55M Series A from Blisce and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21 Europe

Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an AI-based mortgage origination service for tech employees, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21 mortgage AI

Stockholm-based Rerun, which is building a data stack for “Physical AI” like robots and drones, raised a $17M seed, bringing its total funding to $20.2M (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21 AI Robot Drone

Germany's Munich Re agrees to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6B; Next Insurance has raised ~$1.2B from Capital G, Redpoint, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21 Germany Insurance Munich

Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21

OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-21

Michael Seibel says he is leaving YC after 12+ years and moving to a “Partner Emeritus” role, after stepping back from “leadership responsibilities” in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20

Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20 Google AI

AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20 Startup AI

Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20

OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to some devs for $150/1M input tokens and $600/1M output tokens (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20

Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20 Europe Google

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp “a cheap, watered-down imitation” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20 WhatsApp

Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20

Google updates Wallet to let kids with Android smartphones tap to pay in stores in the US, the UK, Australia, Spain, and Poland under parental supervision (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-20 Android Australia Google Spain Poland

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