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OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 Google AI

Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Browser Chrome

YouTube rolls out Hype, which lets users boost creators with under 500K subscribers via a hype button that gives videos points, in the US and 38 other countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 YouTube

Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-27 Google

Google says NotebookLM's Video Overviews now support 80 languages, and Audio Overviews now provide more detailed non-English summaries (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-26 Google

xAI releases the weights of Grok 2 on Hugging Face, under the Grok 2 Community License Agreement; Musk says Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-25

OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-24 Equity

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including “Taste Match” playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23 YouTube Spotify

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

X removes the ability for free-tier developers to like posts and follow users via its API to “protect the platform from spam, bots, and manipulative activities” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-23

India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 India Ban

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

Anthropic announces a subscription offering that adds Claude Code to Enterprise and Team plans; the tool was previously available only via individual accounts (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21

Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions across apps, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google AI

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with an Actua 360 curved display and emergency satellite communication, starting at $349 from October 9 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

Google unveils a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, rolling out as a preview in October for Fitbit Premium users in the redesigned Fitbit app (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-21 Google

Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Meta rolls out AI-powered voice translations for creators on Facebook and Instagram globally, supporting English-Spanish translations with lip syncing (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 Facebook AI Instagram Spain

Keychain, which makes AI-powered software to help manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress to monitor sleep stages and more, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 AI

Texas AG Ken Paxton launches a probe into Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, including for children (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 AI chatbot Texas

HR giant Workday says hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information, like names and email addresses, from one of its third-party CRM platforms (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 CRM

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-16

Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-16 Android IOS

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15

Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15 India NLP Google AI Canada

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15 AI

India-based ride-hailing app Rapido starts testing its food delivery service Ownly in Bengaluru, marking its first serious move to challenge Swiggy and Zomato (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-14 India

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