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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.aiWitness a dynamic dialogue between two visionary CEOsAnthropic’s Claude can now read your GmailGoogle’s Veo 2 video generating model comes to GeminiNotion releases an AI-powered email client for GmailFormer Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solutionOpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety reportOpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platformReach 1,000+ AI leaders: Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AIApple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user dataRLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for roboticsDebates over AI benchmarking have reached PokémonGoogle’s newest AI model is designed to help study dolphin ‘speech’OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on codingOpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its APIGoogle Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questionsHugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startupMeta to start training its AI models on public content in the EUNvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the U.S.Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified IDOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32BApple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finaleThe xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empireMeta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmarkThe most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright caseEx-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transitionChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in MarchIreland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train GrokMeta’s Llama drama and how Trump’s tariffs could hit moonshot projectsLess than a month to get your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI is winding down its GPT-4 AI model in ChatGPTHow Chef Robotics found success by turning away its original customersDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will eventually combine its Gemini and Veo AI modelsMira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed roundAI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study showsThe US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauceYouTube rolls out a free AI music-making tool for creatorsLiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice ModeCanva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and moreOpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chatsNetflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile gameGoogle thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracyAmazon CEO Andy Jassy urges companies to invest heavily in AIThe rise of AI ‘reasoning’ models is making benchmarking more expensiveIncident.io raises $62M at a $400M valuation to help IT teams move fast when things break
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Trending News: Character.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.aiWitness a dynamic dialogue between two visionary CEOsAnthropic’s Claude can now read your GmailGoogle’s Veo 2 video generating model comes to GeminiNotion releases an AI-powered email client for GmailFormer Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solutionOpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety reportOpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platformReach 1,000+ AI leaders: Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AIApple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user dataRLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for roboticsDebates over AI benchmarking have reached PokémonGoogle’s newest AI model is designed to help study dolphin ‘speech’OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on codingOpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its APIGoogle Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questionsHugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startupMeta to start training its AI models on public content in the EUNvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the U.S.Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified IDOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32BApple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finaleThe xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empireMeta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmarkThe most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright caseEx-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transitionChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in MarchIreland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train GrokMeta’s Llama drama and how Trump’s tariffs could hit moonshot projectsLess than a month to get your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AIOpenAI is winding down its GPT-4 AI model in ChatGPTHow Chef Robotics found success by turning away its original customersDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will eventually combine its Gemini and Veo AI modelsMira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed roundAI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study showsThe US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauceYouTube rolls out a free AI music-making tool for creatorsLiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice ModeCanva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and moreOpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chatsNetflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile gameGoogle thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracyAmazon CEO Andy Jassy urges companies to invest heavily in AIThe rise of AI ‘reasoning’ models is making benchmarking more expensiveIncident.io raises $62M at a $400M valuation to help IT teams move fast when things break
Tue. Apr 22nd, 2025

Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agents

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Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book appointments. Its AI voice agents kick in and handle basic operations while handing off more-complex processes to human operators. The Berlin-based startup has now raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed funding round led […]

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