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Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons

A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Apr 01
X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5

X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post), © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Apr 01
LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app

LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 29
Oregon signs right to repair into law

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list of states embracing a right to repair for citizens. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 29
NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows for the system to keep chugging even after a module is damaged. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 28
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters" © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Mar 28
Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 27
Spotify tests video courses to teach everything from music production to excel

In its ongoing efforts to get its 600 million+ users to spend more time and money on its platform, Spotify is spinning up a new line of content: e-learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 27
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare

Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 26
Lordstown Motors’ ousted CEO settles with SEC for misleading investors

Steve Burns, the ousted founder, chairman and CEO of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors, has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over misleading investors about demand for the company’s flagship all-electric Endurance pickup truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Mar 26
Boeing CEO to leave company by year-end, after a wave of safety incidents

Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun will leave the plane-maker by the end of 2024, according to the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 25
AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled online

Customers say leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 25
Why is AI so bad at spelling?

AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 22
Pelikan Mobility's software-enabled commercial EV leasing solution; Candela’s electric ferries multiply

Chances are you may have noticed that many commercial vehicles are now electric vehicles; Electric boat maker Candela is approaching cruising speed with $25 million in new funding and the first commercial deployment of its new P-12 ferry, in New Zealand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 22
White House proposes up to $8.5B to fund Intel’s domestic chip manufacturing

Well before President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law back in August 2022, Intel has been a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to increase domestic chip manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Mar 21
Nvidia and Qualcomm join Open Source Robotics Alliance to support ROS development

The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) this week announced the launch of the similarly named Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 21
Quilt is building AI assistants for solutions teams

The job of so-called “solutions professionals” — people like sales engineers, solutions architects and consultants — revolves around pitching complex enterprise tech to potential customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 20
Meta offers lower cost for EU ad-free subscription under privacy review

Meta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free subscription in the European Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 20
Tech giant Fujitsu says it was hacked, warns of data breach

Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyberattack in a statement Friday, and warned that hackers may have stolen personal data and customer information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 19
Scrap coercive ‘privacy fee’, MEPs urge Meta’s Nick Clegg in open letter

Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Mar 19
Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots

Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 18
Apple acquires AI startup specializing in overlooking manufacturing components

Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe components during manufacturing to improve efficiency, Bloomberg reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 18
A bug in an Irish government website took two years to publicly disclose

The Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of around a million residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Mar 15
Amazon now lets sellers create listings through a URL by using AI

Amazon launched generative AI-powered features last year to help sellers quickly create listings by entering just a few words about the product. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2m
Mar 15
Furno bets that super-efficient, modular kilns will turn the cement industry upside down

Cement startup promises to slash carbon emissions in the process, helping the company raise a $6.5 million seed round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 14
Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil companies $9 billion this year

Investors bet the startup’s algorithms, which feed on satellite data, will fill a significant gap in the methane market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 14
Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to create new AI-guided proteins

By using cell-free technology, Tierra is able to cut down protein manufacturing from months to weeks and enable customers to order proteins online.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 13
Google confirms it’s restricting Gemini election queries globally

If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3m
Mar 13
‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin riases $24M and attains full banking licence

Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank bills itself as an API-driven ‘Banking as a Service’ platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 12
Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week

Elon Musk said Monday he will open-source Grok, X’s AI chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mar 12