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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
Foiled again: Candela raises another $20M to set course for the future of ferries
Swedish company Candela will launch its 30-passenger commercial hydrofoil shuttle, the P-12, this summer — the vessel it believes will change the course of motorized water transport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Microsoft banks on regulations to build a mobile games store
Apple and Google have had a stronghold on mobile app distribution through their app store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FCC proposes satellite-to-phone rules to eliminate ‘no signal’ once and for all
The FCC has officially proposed, and voted unanimously to move forward with, a framework under which satellites can communicate directly with smartphones in a structured and useful way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google warns users to take action to protect against remotely exploitable flaws in popular Android phones
Google’s security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included in dozens of Android models, wearables and vehicles, fearing the flaws could be soon discovered and exploited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
MLOps platform Seldon raises £20M Series B to improve the productions of AI models
The rise of ChatGPTÂ has fuelled growth in the public awareness of AI, as well as the growing discourse around AI ethics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green
The World Economic Forum says that so-called ‘Scope 3 emissions,’ – or CO2 in supply chains – can make up as much as 90% of a company’s carbon footprint and worldwide more than half of all emissions can be traced back to only a handful of supply chains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Waze is making it easier for EV owners to find compatible charging points
Google-owned mapping app Waze is adding a new feature that seeks to help EV owners find a compatible charger en route. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Torch is building solar-powered outdoor sensors to spot wildfires early
The Nest Protect is the single best piece of smart home hardware I’ve ever purchased. Not everything in your home would benefit from being connected, but smoke detectors really do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Firefox extends its anti-tracking protection to Android
Firefox announced today that its Total Cookie Protection (TCP) feature that protects users from trackers is now available on Android. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google goes all-in on bringing AI to Workspace
Google and Microsoft are locked in a head-to-head competition to bring as much generative AI to their productivity services as possible. Only days ahead of Microsoft’s “Future of Work” event, Google today announced a sweeping update to Workspace that will bring its generative AI models to virtually every part of its productivity suite, in addition […]Google goes all-in on bringing AI to Workspace by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Founder of troubled crypto asset unicorn Babel launches new DeFi project, stablecoin
Flex Yang, the former CEO and founder of Babel Finance, is leading efforts to restructure the now embattled crypto asset unicorn while introducing a new decentralized project with hopes to avoid some of the flaws of his previous venture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Naspers shuts down Foundry, its $100M fund focused on South African startups
Naspers, Africa’s most valuable tech company by market capitalization, has winded down the operations of its R1.4 billion (≈$100 million) South Africa-focused venture capital fund Naspers Foundry, according to local news outlet BusinessDay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
PeopleGrove security lapse exposed users’ personal information
PeopleGrove confirmed Thursday that it’s investigating after a security lapse exposed users’ personal information online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple could reportedly release a HomePod with a display
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could be working on a new HomePod device that would feature a built-in display for 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wing likens its drone ‘delivery network’ to rideshare
Drone delivery is one of those ideas that’s been sold as “the next big thing” forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Crypto-friendly bank Silvergate to wind down after FTX blow-up
Silvergate Capital Corporation, the holding company of crypto-focused Silvergate Bank, announced Wednesday its intent to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate the banking unit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Forethought aims to build more accurate chatbots with constrained generative AI models
Forethought has been building chatbots since 2017 with increasing levels of sophistication, intelligence and automation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With Project Clover, TikTok touts new EU data privacy and security efforts
TikTok is doubling down on its European charm offensive today as it looks to counter a rising tide of political discontent with the popular short-form video-hosting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Online food delivery platforms in Kenya under probe
The competition regulator in Kenya is probing the conduct of online food delivery and groceries platforms to inform its suggestions on regulatory and policy options, to bolster healthy competition, and enforcement of consumer protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tensor raises $3M for Solana-focused NFT trading platform
Tensor, a Solana-centric NFT trading platform, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Placeholder, the team exclusively shared with TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices