Taktile, which allows fintech companies to test and deploy decision-making models, has raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia  —  Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation tools, criticizing it for removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia.

Jennifer Korn / CNN:
Researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinfo and TikTok approved 90% of them, Facebook approved a “significant number”, YouTube approved none  —  New York CNN Business —  Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” …

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Estonia-based 3Commas, an automated crypto trading and portfolio management service, has raised a $37M Series B  —  The CEO of crypto custodian Copper also led the round for the trading bot-driven ecosystem.  —  3Commas, an automated crypto trading bot platform, has raised $37 million …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Mozilla acquires Pulse, which made an automated status updater for Slack before shuttering, and plans to use its ML tech to improve personalization in Pocket  —  Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Hebbia, a startup founded by Stanford AI researchers that’s developing AI-powered search tools, has raised a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures  —  Hebbia, a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Laika, provider of automated security compliance software for organizations, raised a $50M Series C led by Fin Capital, bringing its total funding to $98M  —  Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust …