Klaus – an Estonian-born startup which emerged in 2019 to aid customer services agents – has been acquired by global customer services platform Zendesk for an undisclosed amount. Last year Zendesk also acquired Tymeshift, a workforce management tool, to fold into its product. It would be […]
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Amazon Prime Video won’t offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan
On January 29, Amazon started inserting ads into the viewing experience of Prime Video subscribers. The company announced the change last year, telling customers that it will start showing “limited advertisements” with its service’s movies and shows so that it could invest “in compelling content […]
African product, global market: Expensya employees cashed out $10M from 2023 acquisition
What’s more rewarding for an angel investor than paper returns in a startup? An acquisition that turns those paper returns into a cash payout while still maintaining shares in the company. “The return after dilution was eight times my investment,” said Selma Ribica in an […]
Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
Dozens gathered outside the OpenAI office in San Francisco to protest the artificial intelligence lab’s work with the Pentagon and development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems like ChatGPT that could one day surpass human intelligence.
Peloton is getting rid of Apple Watch GymKit support
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an email sent to users Monday evening, Peloton revealed that starting February 27th, it will start transitioning Apple Watch users from GymKit to Peloton One-Tap tracking. GymKit integration was once marketed by Peloton as an exclusive perk […]
Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG
Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and burned in San Francisco
A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and then set on fire by a crowd of people Saturday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. The incident is the latest encounter between driverless vehicles and the public in San Francisco, a city where autonomous vehicle companies have spent […]
Sam Altman and the $7T geopolitics of AI chips | The AI Beat
Silicon Valley was arguably more captivated this weekend by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s fundraising efforts for AI chips than the Super Bowl.
Feds probing Lucid’s software fix for defroster recall
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into a Lucid Motors windshield defroster recall from January, saying it’s “concerned” the company’s over-the-air update solution doesn’t go far enough to fix the problem. Lucid, meanwhile, told TechCrunch that the agency “understates the remedy […]
Over half of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, far more than wider App Store
Apple’s Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions. According to a recently released report from app intelligence firm Appfigures, over half of Vision Pro-only apps […]