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• Waymo and Toyota are dating. If they get serious, a new autonomous vehicle could be created. [295d]
• Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokers [295d]
• Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely [296d]
• Snapchat abandons plans for a simplified version of its app [296d]
• Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data [296d]
• Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year [296d]
• OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’ [296d]
• Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations [296d]
• Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times [296d]
• Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space [296d]
• A Tesla board member actually bought some stock [296d]
• Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models [296d]
• Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons [296d]
• Google Wallet to add support for digital IDs in more states [296d]
• Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages [296d]
• Meta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPT [296d]
• Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon [296d]
• Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail [296d]
• Spotify adds 5M premium users and hits record operating income [296d]
• The deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9 [296d]
• Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI [296d]
• Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AI [296d]
• Amazon Prime Day to return in July despite threat of tariffs [296d]
• Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps [296d]
• Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere [296d]