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to become end-to-end data movement platformAnthropic lets users connect more apps to ClaudeEpic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new rulingGoogle’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionalityLast call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AIXbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensiveFortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next weekGoogle is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbotsMicrosoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systemsMeta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification deviceWorld partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more placesEpic Games just scored a win against AppleAmazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yetStudy accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmarkGoogle’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image creation toolsMicrosoft expects some AI capacity constraints this quarterVisa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shoppingAmazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbotsPinterest launches new tools to fight AI slopIf you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settingsJetBrains releases Mellum, an ‘open’ AI coding modelGruve.ai promises software-like margins for AI tech consulting, disrupting decades-old IndustryAnthropic suggests tweaks to proposed US AI chip export controlsSide Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AIDuolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI5 days left: $210 ticket discount and 50% off on the second for TechCrunch Sessions AIWikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteersDeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model ProverSupio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60MAI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 monthsCast AI raises $108M to get the max out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloadsOpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophanticMicrosoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AIMeta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAIFigure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokersStartups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app CluelyFreepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed dataOpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B timesMeta previews an API for its Llama AI modelsMeta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaConMeta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPTGoogle launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessonsGoogle’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languagesThe deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9Final 6 days: Save big and bring a 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productionEarly cancer detection startup Craif raises $22MWelcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbotsReport finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minorsGoogle’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionizeMusk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round everAnthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding toolAn OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card deniedGoogle’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by designChinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuationLast day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAnthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research toolHow do you define cheating in the age of AI?Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ adsWithin six 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Trending News: Google’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackersAI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warnsApple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platformOne of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safetyGoogle will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbotDamn, the Cluely ragebait got usGoogle’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are available for pre-orderOpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancyAirbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the USReddit’s AI play is for the Google crowd, not just the community scrollersAmazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate scienceAi2’s new small AI model outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, MetaNvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controlsFivetran acquires Census to become end-to-end data movement platformAnthropic lets users connect more apps to ClaudeEpic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new rulingGoogle’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionalityLast call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AIXbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensiveFortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next weekGoogle is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbotsMicrosoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systemsMeta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification deviceWorld partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more placesEpic Games just scored a win against AppleAmazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yetStudy accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmarkGoogle’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image creation toolsMicrosoft expects some AI capacity constraints this quarterVisa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shoppingAmazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbotsPinterest launches new tools to fight AI slopIf you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settingsJetBrains releases Mellum, an ‘open’ AI coding modelGruve.ai promises software-like margins for AI tech consulting, disrupting decades-old IndustryAnthropic suggests tweaks to proposed US AI chip export controlsSide Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AIDuolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI5 days left: $210 ticket discount and 50% off on the second for TechCrunch Sessions AIWikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteersDeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model ProverSupio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60MAI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 monthsCast AI raises $108M to get the max out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloadsOpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophanticMicrosoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AIMeta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAIFigure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokersStartups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app CluelyFreepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed dataOpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B timesMeta previews an API for its Llama AI modelsMeta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaConMeta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPTGoogle launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessonsGoogle’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languagesThe deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AIAnthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AINear Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphereYelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providersHere’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer eventA16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmakerGrouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groupsOpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversationsAlibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning modelsHugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT search with shopping featuresHuawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chipGoogle shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conferenceFinal 7 days: Save $210 + 50% off a second ticket to TechCrunch Sessions: AILightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in productionEarly cancer detection startup Craif raises $22MWelcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbotsReport finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minorsGoogle’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionizeMusk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round everAnthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding toolAn OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card deniedGoogle’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by designChinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuationLast day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AIAnthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research toolHow do you define cheating in the age of AI?Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ adsWithin six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200BOpenAI may be developing its own social platform, but who’s it for?OpenAI wants its ‘open’ AI model to call models in the cloud for helpPublic comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffsChess.com reaches 200 million membersAnthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’Speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Applications now openDropbox adds new features to Dash, its AI-powered search toolThis tool estimates how much electricity your chatbot messages consumeAdobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web app
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Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud

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  • April 16, 2025
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Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and illegitimate payment details, the search giant said it could suspend […]

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