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 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
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)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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 …

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 …

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.