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Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy
Strahinja Janjusevic brings an international perspective and US Naval Academy education to his graduate research in the MIT Technology and Policy Program.
View the articleIndia’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users
ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.
View the articleNvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M
The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.
View the articleSelf-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers
Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.
View the articleSpanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.
View the articleApple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws
Apple complies with new age assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.
View the articleUber engineers built an AI version of their boss
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.
View the articleStripe is reportedly eyeing deal to buy some or all of PayPal
Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.
View the articleFormer L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker
Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to...
View the articleGoogle’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery
Form Energy's iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.
View the articleCarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accounts
Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.
View the articleAnthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, ...
View the articleDiscord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash
The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.
View the articleInstagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals
An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn't launch its unwanted-nudity filter until 2024.
View the articleMore startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before
AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.
View the articleInstagram’s TV app is launching on Google TV devices
By bringing Reels to TV, Instagram is looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.
View the articleTreasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor
The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-...
View the articleGoogle adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal
The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts.
View the articleSpotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like … an urn?
Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.
View the articleTwitch is overhauling its suspensions policy
The company is implementing two suspension types: streaming suspensions and chatting suspensions.
View the articleOpenAI COO says ‘we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes’
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption a...
View the articleStripe’s valuation soars 74% to $159 billion
Stripe has conducted another tender offer, where employees sell shares. Investors include Thrive Capital, Coatue, a16z, and Stripe itself
View the articleYouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play
Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.
View the articleMusic generator ProducerAI joins Google Labs
Wyclef Jean used Google's AI music tools on his new song "Back in Abu Dhabi."
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