Technology - Inxa.inSearch.cc

Technology

An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custom GPTs that appear to violate OpenAI's policies regarding sexual content, legal and medical advice, and more (Todd Feathers/Gizmodo)

An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custo...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists "equipped with deep philosophical thinking", with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultiva...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service (The Economic Times)

Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a ...

4 months ago 19 Add to circle

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spending on X in 2025 and 14% say they will pull budgets this year, due to concerns about content on the platform (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)

Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spend...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections (CNN)

The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russ...

4 months ago 12 Add to circle

C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M est., and subscription revenue up 20% YoY to $73.5M, vs. $79.1M est.; its stock falls 16%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)

C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs....

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees to acquire corporate spending software company Airbase for $325M; Airbase was valued at $600M in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software,...

4 months ago 21 Add to circle

HPE reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $7.71B, vs. $7.66B est., Server revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B, and adjusted gross margins of 31.8%, vs. 33.4% est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

HPE reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $7.71B, vs. $...

4 months ago 12 Add to circle

Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by former Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged its CEO misused funds (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by f...

4 months ago 6 Add to circle

Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to s...

4 months ago 12 Add to circle

Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns (Bloomberg)

Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and ha...

4 months ago 11 Add to circle

Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and ha...

4 months ago 24 Add to circle

Sam Madden named faculty head of computer science in EECS

Sam Madden named faculty head of computer science ...

4 months ago 2 Add to circle

Remembering Mathieu Le Provost: AeroAstro researcher, adventurer, and friend

Remembering Mathieu Le Provost: AeroAstro research...

4 months ago 2 Add to circle

Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google releases Android 15, making its source code...

4 months ago 17 Add to circle

Bolt's Ryan Breslow thanked 13 investors in an email for supporting a $450M Series F, but some say they hadn't given support; BlackRock moves to block the round (Forbes)

Bolt's Ryan Breslow thanked 13 investors in an ema...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a distric...

4 months ago 22 Add to circle

Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees fr...

4 months ago 19 Add to circle

A US court grants X a preliminary injunction against California's AB 587, which requires disclosure of moderation policies, reversing a lower court decision (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)

A US court grants X a preliminary injunction again...

4 months ago 20 Add to circle

Netflix struggles to reduce its productions' carbon footprint, with more emissions in 2022 vs. 2019, partly because it doesn't own any equipment or studio space (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)

Netflix struggles to reduce its productions' carbo...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

X launches a new TV app "on several app stores" in beta, as part of an effort to court advertisers, creators, and partners around a "video-first platform" (TechCrunch)

X launches a new TV app "on several app stores" in...

4 months ago 20 Add to circle

Elon Musk's attacks on Kamala Harris, including AI-generated images that lack scrutiny from Community Notes, show how he has turned X into a pro-Trump machine (Donie O'Sullivan/CNN)

Elon Musk's attacks on Kamala Harris, including AI...

4 months ago 18 Add to circle

Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)

Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promot...

4 months ago 13 Add to circle

Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a c...

4 months ago 17 Add to circle

The Atlantic Council researchers detail how spyware vendors are skirting restrictions by renaming, starting new companies, or by changing legal jurisdictions (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

The Atlantic Council researchers detail how spywar...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Ride-hailing company GoTo plans to close its Gojek...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Ireland's DPC ends court proceedings against X after it agreed to limit its use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI on a permanent basis (Reuters)

Ireland's DPC ends court proceedings against X aft...

4 months ago 4 Add to circle

Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation (Reuters)

Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI ch...

4 months ago 8 Add to circle

Filing: Lyft plans to sell some of its bike and scooter business and cut 1% of its employees as it struggles to turn profitable (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Filing: Lyft plans to sell some of its bike and sc...

4 months ago 8 Add to circle

People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggled with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presented untrue or hallucinated information (Washington Post)

People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it...

4 months ago 18 Add to circle

Cortex, which sells an internal developer portal for teams making software, raised $60M from Sequoia, Stripe co-founders, and others, at a $470M valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Cortex, which sells an internal developer portal f...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

You.com, an AI-powered search engine, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $99M, and launches "multiplayer AI" features for team collaboration (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

You.com, an AI-powered search engine, raised a $50...

4 months ago 26 Add to circle

Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets, and plans to migrate customers to Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to ...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let retail investors lend stocks they own to interested borrowers, in a bid to grow its international footprint (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let ...

4 months ago 18 Add to circle

Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based companies has flagged since 2022's crypto rout (Anna J Kaiser/Bloomberg)

Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May bec...

4 months ago 17 Add to circle

Microsoft announces a Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft announces a Copilot: Wave 2 event on Sep...

4 months ago 20 Add to circle

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inflection team doesn't cause competition concerns, but designates the deal as a merger (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inf...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Qualcomm announces its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14, available for $899 each (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Qualcomm announces its first 8-core Snapdragon X P...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

The Biden administration's big bet on Intel to lead a US chipmaking revival is in trouble as Intel struggles to meet milestones for receiving CHIPS Act grants (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

The Biden administration's big bet on Intel to lea...

4 months ago 10 Add to circle

Sources: Intel's contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom using Intel's advanced 18A chipmaking process failed (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: Intel's contract manufacturing business h...

4 months ago 4 Add to circle

Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase "from the river to the sea" is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (David Ingram/NBC News)

Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase "from...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist that evolves through the day depending on listening habits, globally for free and adds support for 14 languages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist t...

4 months ago 6 Add to circle

Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's WeChat Pay on its Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms, as Chinese government crackdown on Alibaba ends (Bloomberg)

Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's ...

4 months ago 5 Add to circle

Ubisoft stock fell by 10%+ to a ten year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)

Ubisoft stock fell by 10%+ to a ten year low in th...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle

Blackstone agrees to acquire Australian data center operator AirTrunk in a deal valuing the company at around $16.1B (Bloomberg)

Blackstone agrees to acquire Australian data cente...

4 months ago 18 Add to circle

In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft says Apple's changes to App Review Guidelines aren't enough for it to operate a native iOS Xbox Cloud Gaming app (Tom Warren/The Verge)

In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft sa...

4 months ago 14 Add to circle

Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating (Min Jeong Lee/BNN Bloomberg)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI m...

4 months ago 22 Add to circle

Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI (Reuters)

Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in...

4 months ago 15 Add to circle