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- Zoom restores service after an hours-long outage [20d]
- Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel, and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation [20d]
- Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban [20d]
- Rippling wants UK fintech Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged ‘spy’ [21d]
- Former CISA director Chris Krebs vows to fight back against Trump-ordered federal investigation [21d]
- OpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisks [21d]
- Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer [21d]
- Trump-appointed judge orders Trump admin to ‘turn the funding spigots back on’ [21d]
- OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week [21d]
- Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh [21d]
- Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS [21d]
- OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s o3 AI model [21d]
- India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe [21d]
- OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini [21d]
- OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals [21d]
- Digital frame maker Aura introduces the Aspen, a $299 frame with more intelligent features [21d]
- Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads [21d]
- Apple races to surpass rivals in quest to eliminate carbon pollution [21d]
- Startup funding hit records in Q1. But the outlook for 2025 is still awful. [21d]
- Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs [21d]
- NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks [21d]
- NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers behind 2019 WhatsApp hacks [21d]
- As Deezer approaches profitability, it rolls out a custom algorithm and other new features [21d]
- TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a new Community Notes-like feature [21d]
- Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI [21d]
- Kia is pitching Americans an affordable EV sedan with EV4 debut [21d]
- Bolt’s Ryan Breslow pins his hopes on a new app that takes on Coinbase, Zelle, and PayPal [21d]
- Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit table [21d]
- Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands [21d]
- TechCrunch All Stage: Full agenda revealed [21d]
- Subaru debuts Trailseeker, an all-electric SUV coming for Rivian’s outdoorsy EV customer base [21d]
- Lyft to buy taxi app FREENOW for $197M to enter Europe [21d]
- AMD estimates $800M charge on US license requirement for AI chips [21d]
- Patreon tests a native live video feature where creators can stream 24/7 [21d]
- A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics [21d]
- X’s UK division saw revenue decline 66% in 2023 following Musk’s takeover [21d]
- Cosmic Robotics’ robots could speed up solar panel deployments [21d]
- Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation [21d]
- Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud [21d]
- Visa-backed African unicorn Moniepoint tackles remittances. But is it late to the game? [21d]
- Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser [21d]
- TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, is joining our StrictlyVC London lineup [21d]
- How Musk manages his growing family: WSJ [21d]
- Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps [21d]
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