Descript, the AI-powered media editing app founded by Andrew Mason, raised a $50M Series C led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, bringing its total funding to $100M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M  —  Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OneSignal, which helps businesses automate SMS, in-app, and email campaigns, raised a $50M Series C led by BAM Elevate, bringing its total funding to $80M  —  OneSignal, a platform that powers notifications for mobile apps and more, today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led …

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
PhotoRoom, which is bringing generative AI to its photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and SMBs, raised a $19M Series A; the app has 7M MAUs, 40M+ downloads  —  French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round.  The company develops a popular photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and small businesses.

Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Qualcomm announces the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 and Qualcomm S5 Gen 2 for wireless audio gear with support for spatial audio, improved ANC, lossless music, and more  —  The new SoCs are optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio and unlock several premium audio experiences

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M  —  Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time.  In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% …

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI’s next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more  —  Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI’s CEO.  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO …