Trending News: Google 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 appAdobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI trainingWindsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats upOpenAI 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brand at the center of the AI conversation — host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AIInstagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accountsOpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially impliedKids sure love video game moviesYour politeness could be costly for OpenAIFamed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhereOpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate moreChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’TikToker sues Roblox over her Charli XCX ‘Apple’ danceChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searchesIs the SPAC back?The Nintendo Switch 2 will still cost $450 in the US, despite tariffsOpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3BOpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasksFormer Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fundAs the trade war escalates, Hence launches an AI ‘advisor’ to help companies manage riskGoogle’s latest AI model report lacks key safety details, experts sayAI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new companyThe latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photosOpenAI’s Stargate project sets its sights on international expansionxAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to GrokTrump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek banOpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisksOpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this weekOpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s newest AI modelsOpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminalsOpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-miniMicrosoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUsStartup funding hit records in Q1. But the outlook for 2025 is still awful.Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit tableDeck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AICapsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brandsA dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topicsAMD estimates $800M charge on US license requirement for AI chipsHammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuationGoogle used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraudOpera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browserGrok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and appsNvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US governmentTelli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agentsOpenAI may ‘adjust’ its safeguards if rivals release ‘high-risk’ AIFigma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS businessOpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai
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Trending News: Google 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 appAdobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI trainingWindsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats upOpenAI seeks to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-classOpenAI’s GPT-4.1 may be less aligned than the company’s previous AI modelsDiscord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEOOpenAI makes its upgraded image generator available to developersBring a plus-one to TechCrunch Sessions: AI and save 50% on their ticket through May 4Google Gemini has 350M monthly users, reveals court hearingAI note-taking app Fireflies adds new ways to extract insights from meeting notesHow to survive and thrive as tariffs, AI, and politics unsettle the rules of businessEndor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93MTech resilience, breakout startups, and banking reinvented: The big conversations at StrictlyVC London in MayNoxtua raises $92M for its sovereign AI tuned for the German legal systemxAI’s Grok chatbot can now ‘see’ the world around itWhy OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing WindsurfChatGPT’s responses will now include Washington Post articlesOpenAI exec says the company would buy Google’s Chrome browser if offered the chanceA Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive imagesCharacter.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbotsEx-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startupAdaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmersTwo undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLMCrowdsourced AI benchmarks have serious flaws, some experts sayManychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AIRivian elects Cohere’s CEO to its board in latest signal the EV maker is bullish on AITomorrow: Join Ali Ghodsi and Dario Amodei for a fireside chatChatGPT search is growing quickly in Europe, OpenAI data suggestsAn AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revokedFinal weeks to secure your spot in the AI spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AIPut your brand at the center of the AI conversation — host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AIInstagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accountsOpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially impliedKids sure love video game moviesYour politeness could be costly for OpenAIFamed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhereOpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate moreChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’TikToker sues Roblox over her Charli XCX ‘Apple’ danceChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searchesIs the SPAC back?The Nintendo Switch 2 will still cost $450 in the US, despite tariffsOpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3BOpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasksFormer Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fundAs the trade war escalates, Hence launches an AI ‘advisor’ to help companies manage riskGoogle’s latest AI model report lacks key safety details, experts sayAI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new companyThe latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photosOpenAI’s Stargate project sets its sights on international expansionxAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to GrokTrump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek banOpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisksOpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this weekOpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s newest AI modelsOpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminalsOpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-miniMicrosoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUsStartup funding hit records in Q1. But the outlook for 2025 is still awful.Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit tableDeck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AICapsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brandsA dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topicsAMD estimates $800M charge on US license requirement for AI chipsHammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuationGoogle used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraudOpera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browserGrok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and appsNvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US governmentTelli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agentsOpenAI may ‘adjust’ its safeguards if rivals release ‘high-risk’ AIFigma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS businessOpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai
Mon. Apr 28th, 2025 4:31:06 PM

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’

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We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch.  The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode” for a new product feature. Figma, which also has a feature called Dev Mode, […]

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