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Apigee rolls out new AI-powered API protection features
Timed to coincide with the annual RSA cybersecurity conference, Google Cloud announced updates to Apigee, its API management and predictive analytics service, designed to help prevent business logic attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions
CorrActions, an Israeli startup that, among other things, built a driver monitoring system that can understand a driver’s cognitive state, today announced that it has raised a strategic investment from Volvo Cars Tech Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The IRS is sending four investigators across the world to fight cybercrime
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to send four agents who specialize in investigating cybercrime to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany starting this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark
As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system is causing more than a little chaos, with CEO Elon Musk himself stepping in to pay for some celebrities’ verification when they refuse to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber and Cartken are bringing sidewalk delivery robots to Virginia
Uber is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robot startup Cartken to Fairfax, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Outsourcing giant Capita fears customer data stolen during ransomware attack
Capita, the British outsourcing company that provides critical services for the U.K. government, says hackers may have accessed customer data during a cyberattack last month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Salesforce is working on a pair of new generative AI-driven workflow tools
One of the promises of generative AI is the ability to create code based on a written request. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync
Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alaska Airlines does away with check-in kiosks
Alaska Airlines recently started a 3-year, $2.5 billion project to improve the airport experience at its hubs and focus cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple’s high security mode blocked NSO spyware, researchers say
Last year, Apple launched a new feature for iPhone users who are worried about getting targeted with sophisticated spyware, such as journalists or human rights defenders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury
I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Adobe brings Firefly to its video tools
A month ago, Adobe announced Firefly, its entry into the generative AI game. Initially, Firefly’s focus was on generating commercially safe images, but the company is now pushing its technology beyond still images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year
Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter introduces 10,000 character long tweets for Blue subscribers
Twitter has introduced a new feature that will let Blue subscribers post 10,000-character-long posts — as if the social network is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter partners with eToro to show real-time stock and crypto information
Twitter has partnered with the investment platform eToro to show real-time information about stocks and crypto prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M
Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Truecaller brings live caller ID to iPhone… but with a catch
Truecaller has been a known name in the app market globally — thanks to its eponymous caller-identification service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Strava launches integration with Spotify to let users listen to content while tracking activities
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has announced a new in-app integration with Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Drink to dust’: Startup says just smash its clay alternative to plastic cups
Disposable plastic and paper cups are an environmental mess. GaeaStar, a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, thinks it can do better with just clay, water, salt and sand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal, other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills
Former Twitter employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde, and ex-CFO Ned Segal, have sued the social network over alleged unpaid legal reimbursements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter is now resurfacing official Russian accounts in search results
A year after Twitter restricted the Russian government accounts on its platform, the social network appears to have removed those blockings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis, issues software update after crashing into city bus
GM’s self-driving unit Cruise filed with federal regulators a voluntary recall to update the software in 300 robotaxis after one struck the back of a city bus in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsung cuts memory chip production as it hits worst quarterly profit since 2009
Samsung Electronics plans to cut back memory chip production as its operating profit in the first quarter of 2023 is expected to plummet about 96% from the previous year. This will be the lowest profit posted by the South Korean tech giant since 1Q 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
T-Mobile to provide free MLB.TV subscriptions to customers through 2028
T-Mobile announced today that it has extended its partnership with Major League Baseball to allow its customers to continue receiving free MLB.TV subscriptions through 2028. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Legal powerhouse Proskauer exposed clients’ confidential M&A data
A security lapse saw Proskauer Rose, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, expose sensitive client data for more than six months, TechCrunch has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nestle takes a big swig of Yfood in a deal that values the meal replacement startup at $469M
Yfood, one of the direct-to-consumer food tech startups that has emerged over the last decade around the concept of meal replacement drinks, is bulking up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cranium launches out of KPMG’s venture studio to tackle AI security
Several years ago, Jonathan Dambrot, a partner at KPMG, was helping customers deploy and develop AI systems when he started to notice certain gaps in compliance and security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins
U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace used to acquire compromised credentials and digital browser fingerprints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dozer exits stealth to help any developer build real-time data apps ‘in minutes’
Data has emerged as one of the world’s greatest resources, underpinning everything from video-recommendation engines and digital banking, to the burgeoning AI revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zealy is an achievement system for web3 communities
Meet Zealy, a French startup that you may already know under the name Crew3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nintendo and mobile games company DeNA launch Nintendo Systems
Back in November, Nintendo and app developer DeNA announced its joint venture company called Nintendo Systems, which is meant to help reinforce Nintendo’s business and “create value-added services,” according to Nintendo’s Japanese website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rivian sticks to 2023 production goal for EVs despite quarterly dip
EV automaker Rivian said Monday it produced 9,395 vehicles at its factory in Normal, Illinois in the first quarter, lower than the previous period but still on track to hit its 50,000 production goal for the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Read’s AI-powered summary feature squeezes a meeting into a two-minute clip
Summarization is one of the common use cases of different AI models. Multiple tools have come up with a summarization of articles, PDFs, videos, and transcripts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns
Two days after an open letter called for a moratorium on more powerful generative AI models being developed so regulators can catch up with the likes of ChatGPT, Italy’s data protection authority has just put out a timely reminder that some countries do have laws that already apply to cutting edge AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
P97 fills up its tank with $40M to fuel its gas station mobile commerce services
The rising prices for gas continue to be a headache and stress for a lot of people around the world, but it underscores something more besides the cost of living becoming increasingly untenable: Cars are a central part of modern life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Roku announces a second set of layoffs impacting 200 employees
Roku is the latest tech company to announce a second round of layoffs with today’s news that it’s letting go of 6% of its workforce, or around 200 employees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hygraph raises $30M to scale out a new, federated approach to managing digital content
Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google to roll out new extreme heat alerts in Search soon
Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves, the company announced on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Turntable LIVE (née tt.fm) raises $7M ahead of public launch
The Turntable wars were one of the more fascinating stories to emerge in 2021 startup land (though I suspect those involved might dispute the matter). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers
Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos
Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
France bans recreational apps like TikTok on government devices
France is the latest country that is taking steps to ban TikTok from government-managed devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Huupe, a ‘smart’ basketball hoop startup, raises its game with $11M
Basketball can be played just about anywhere and by anyone in the U.S. and now many other parts of the world, thanks to a confluence of factors that lower a lot of barriers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ford to build next-gen EV truck at $5.6B factory in 2025
Ford said Friday that its $5.6 billion BlueOval City complex outside of Memphis, Tennessee will include a truck plant capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
DoorDash is adding three new retail partners and updating its shopping features
DoorDash is adding three new retail partners and updating its shopping features, the company announced on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ford expects EV business unit to lose $3B this year, hit profitability in 2026
Any question of what business sector is — and is not — profitable at Ford is no longer a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CodiumAI is using generative AI to help developers build code logic tests automatically
Over his two decades of experience in the tech industry, CodiumAI co-founder and CEO Itmar Friedman has personally experienced the pain of building test suites to check his code logic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ubisoft’s new AI tool automatically generates dialogue for non-playable game characters
Ubisoft, the developer behind popular games like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, announced that it’s using an AI “Ghostwriter” tool to write dialogue for some of its games with the aim of keeping NPCs (non-playable characters) individually interesting and realistic with less manual work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
IPRally, a patent search engine powered by explainable AI, raises $10.8M
IPRally, a Finnish startup building a knowledge graph-based patent search engine, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ferrari says ransomware attack exposed customers’ personal data
Italian supercar manufacturer Ferrari has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack that exposed customers’ personal information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices