Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources  —  Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives.  —  Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short …

Published: 2024-11-25 18:20:16

Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M  —  - Texas-based security unicorn is backed by Bain, Evolution  — Halcyon is raising $100 million in funding from investors

Published: 2024-11-25 18:15:00

Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries  —  Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Monday.

Published: 2024-11-25 17:15:00

Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales (The Information)

The Information: Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales  —  Apple's desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can't overcome a design hurdle …

Published: 2024-11-25 16:55:00

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB  —  The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.

Published: 2024-11-25 16:00:45

Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps game developers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps game developers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation  —  As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic …

Published: 2024-11-25 15:20:01

Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …

Published: 2024-11-25 15:10:01

The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see "if they can find any trace of Bluesky" (Financial Times)

Financial Times: The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky”  —  Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers

Published: 2024-11-25 14:50:01

Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears  —  - Buy now, pay later firm's revenue up 23% in nine-month period  — Klarna has filed for an initial public offering in the US

Published: 2024-11-25 14:05:01

PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures  —  Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.

Published: 2024-11-25 13:50:01

Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video management and monetization platform Brightcove private in a deal valued at $233M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video management and monetization platform Brightcove private in a deal valued at $233M  —  Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology company Bending Spoons …

Published: 2024-11-25 13:40:03

MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin (James Hunt/The Block)

James Hunt / The Block: MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin  —  - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.

Published: 2024-11-25 13:35:03

The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses (Peter Chapman/Bloomberg)

Peter Chapman / Bloomberg: The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses  —  - EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive  — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted

Published: 2024-11-25 12:50:15

Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have lost UK businesses ~£44B in revenue in the past five years and 52% of companies have reported at least one attack (Carolyn Cohn/Reuters)

Carolyn Cohn / Reuters: Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have lost UK businesses ~£44B in revenue in the past five years and 52% of companies have reported at least one attack  —  Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years …

Published: 2024-11-25 11:45:02

Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times)

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership  —  Concept aims to counter criticism that the platform contributes to housing crises in big tourist destinations

Published: 2024-11-25 11:20:02

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