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OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI products including ChatGPT, enable Reddit to add new AI tools, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner — Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform’s content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search — X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest …
Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe’s $20B acquisition proposal (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe’s $20B acquisition proposal — Figma employees and early shareholders collectively will be able to sell as much as $900 million of their shares after lining …
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube — TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 60-minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday.
Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M — In 2014, Jason Frantz and Rob Woollen co-founded Sigma Computing, a platform that overlays data stored in data platforms …
Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users — Meta is starting to test a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads today. It will allow Threads users to create customizable feeds that are stacked …
How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
Jessica Mathews / Fortune:
How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 — October 2 was a quiet night on the streets of San Francisco. It was moderately cloudy, and Fleet Week activities had just begun at Sunset Library.
Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop — It’s also making wheelchair information on Google Maps available on desktop. — Google has updated some of its accessibility apps …
Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18 — Google introduced a ton of new Gemini-related products at its Google I/O developer conference recently, and its Education suite is also getting an AI boost.
Israel-based Agora, which develops real estate investment management software, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Israel-based Agora, which develops real estate investment management software, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M — Since he was very young, Bar Mor knew that he would inevitably do something with real estate. His family was involved in all types of real estate projects …