February 2025

Why OpenAI isn’t bringing deep research to its API just yet

February 25, 2025

OpenAI says that it won’t bring the AI model powering deep research, its in-depth research tool, to its developer API while it figures out how to better assess the risks of AI convincing people to act on or change their beliefs. In an OpenAI whitepaper published Wednesday, the company wrote that it’s in the process […]

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Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web

February 25, 2025

Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others. Launched as a Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry went on to raise over $177,000 via crowdfunding for its app, which opened up to the […]

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Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share custom AI-powered apps

February 25, 2025

Poe, Quora’s platform that brings together a number of AI models under one roof, has launched a new capability that lets users build visual interfaces — apps, essentially — on top of any combination of models. Called Poe Apps, the feature allows Poe users to describe the app they want to create in the new […]

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Brex eyes $500M in revenue as it adds the likes of Anthropic and Robinhood as customers

February 25, 2025

Fintech Brex expects its annual net revenue to reach $500 million in 2025, according to a person familiar with the company’s operations as cited by Bloomberg and The Information. While the startup did not comment on the specific revenue projection, it did share that Brex has seen “3x overall revenue growth” year-over-year. It also told […]

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Is this 32-year-old a brilliant founder, or a deceptive fraudster?

February 25, 2025

Hi there, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular fintech newsletter. We’re going on hiatus for a bit, but you can still find our must-see fintech coverage, including my columns and our daily analysis and breaking news stories, at TechCrunch.com. If you want those stories and much more in your inbox every day, sign up for our daily […]

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