The US military has ramped up its use of artificial intelligence tools after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, based on a new report by Bloomberg. Schuyler Moore, US Central Command’s chief technology officer, told the news organization that machine learning algorithms helped the […]
Month: February 2024
The Supreme Court could decide the future of content moderation — or it could punt
The Supreme Court is considering the fate of two state laws that limit how social media companies can moderate the content on their platforms. In oral arguments on Monday, the justices grappled with a thorny set of questions that could reshape the internet, from social […]
Shadowfax speeds ahead with $100M funding as instant delivery boom fuels growth
Shadowfax, one of the largest logistics service providers to hyper-local and on-demand delivery businesses in India, has raised $100 million in a new funding round as it clocks an yearly growth of over 35%. TPG NewQuest led Shadowfax’s Series E financing round, which includes some […]
The Ring car camera appears to be finished, doomed by an unclear target market
Once upon a time, gadgets knew what they were truly for. Toaster? Brown thy bread. Smartphone? Connect thy user. But the Ring Car Camera? Ever since its launch it found itself in a bit of an identity crisis. After three and a half years, Amazon’s […]
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy is tapping fresh $221M round, filing reveals
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma steps down from Paytm Payments Bank board
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and majority owner of Paytm Payments Bank, has stepped down from the board of the troubled unit days after the Indian regulator signal continuity at the financial firm Paytm. Paytm Payments Bank said Monday it was reconstituting the board of […]
Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages […]
Doublepoint launches its WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Pixel Watch 2
Admittedly Apple iWatch uses have had it since October last year, but as of today at Mobile World Congress, the Doublepoint startup has launched the updated version of its popular WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Android smartwatches. Launched at CES in January, the free app […]
Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical image diversity issue within weeks
Google is hopeful it will soon be able to ‘unpause’ the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini, to depict people, per DeepMind founder, Demis Hassabis. The capability to respond to prompts for images of humans should be back online in the “next few […]
QIA to invest $1 billion in international and regional venture capital funds
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is launching a $1 billion venture capital (VC) fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds, the sovereign wealth fund announced on Monday. The program, according to QIA, seeks to attract international VC funds and startups to Qatar […]