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Retail Store Closures Continue Following Crowd Influx For New Pocket Watch Release
Retail outlets operated by Swatch in Manchester and Liverpool remained closed for a second consecutive day following the recurrence of large shopper queues formed to purchase a new £335 pocket…
Apple Announces AI Powered Accessibility Updates Across Device Ecosystem
Apple announced several accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence to enhance features including VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption generation for videos. The company timed the announcement ahead…
Survivor Contestants Partner To Launch Goal Tracking Application Paprclip
Former reality television contestants Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu, who previously formed a strategic alliance on Survivor 48, have partnered to launch a goal-focused social accountability application named Paprclip. The…
Status AI Raises Seventeen Million Dollars For Immersive Fandom Platform
The gamified social media application Status AI secured $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding from investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator, LightShed Partners, and Abstract. Founded by…
Stilta Secures Seed Funding To Automate Patent Research
The Stockholm-based legal tech startup Stilta raised $10.5 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to automate the research and analysis behind intellectual property…
Solar Expected To Surpass Fossil Fuels As World’s Largest Power Source, BloombergNEF Says
Solar power is projected to become the world’s largest source of electricity within the next decade, overtaking coal, oil, and natural gas as falling costs continue driving rapid global adoption,…
Stanford Student Journalist Theo Baker Details Silicon Valley’s Talent Pipeline In New Book
Theo Baker, the Stanford student journalist whose reporting helped force former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign, is releasing a new book examining the relationship between Stanford University and Silicon…
OSHA Investigates Worker Death At SpaceX Starbase Launch Site In Texas
A worker died Friday at SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Texas, prompting an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. According to the San Antonio Express-News, the unidentified worker…
Anthropic Acquires Stainless, Cutting Off SDK Infrastructure Tool Used By OpenAI And Google
Anthropic has acquired developer infrastructure startup Stainless, a company whose software has been widely used by AI firms including OpenAI and Google to build and maintain software development kits for…
Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit After Finding Claims Were Filed Too Late
A California jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, concluding that his claims over the company’s restructuring and alleged misconduct were filed after the legal deadline allowed under California…
NYC Health + Hospitals Says Cyberattack Exposed Data Of 1.8 Million People
NYC Health + Hospitals said a cyberattack that compromised its systems for several months exposed personal, medical, financial, and biometric information belonging to at least 1.8 million people, making it…
Kin Health Raises $9 Million To Build AI Medical Notetaker For Patients
Kin Health has raised $9 million in seed funding to develop an AI-powered medical notetaking app designed for patients, aiming to help people record doctor visits, organize health information, and…
Amazon Adds AI-Generated Custom Podcasts To Alexa+
Amazon has launched a new Alexa+ feature that allows users to generate personalized podcast episodes on demand using artificial intelligence, expanding the company’s push to position Alexa+ as a broader…
Nectar Social Raises $30 Million To Expand AI Marketing Agent Platform
Nectar Social has raised $30 million in Series A funding as the startup expands its AI-powered marketing platform designed to automate brand activity across social media platforms using autonomous AI…
ArXiv Introduces Stricter Penalties For Unchecked AI-Generated Research Content
arXiv is tightening its policies around the use of large language models in scientific papers, introducing stricter penalties for researchers who submit papers containing clear evidence of unchecked AI-generated material.…
Greg Brockman Takes Formal Control Of OpenAI Product Strategy Amid Platform Consolidation
Greg Brockman is formally assuming leadership of OpenAI’s product strategy efforts as the company continues consolidating its AI products around ChatGPT and broader agent-focused services, according to a report from…
Cerebras Burned Nearly $200 Million Solving AI Chip Problem Before Reaching $60 Billion Valuation
Cerebras Systems entered the public markets this week with a valuation of about $60 billion after a blockbuster IPO, but the AI chip company nearly failed in 2019 while trying…
Kindle Users Turn To Jailbreaking As Amazon Ends Support For Older Devices
Owners of older Amazon Kindle devices are increasingly turning to jailbreaking after Amazon announced it will end technical support for several legacy Kindle models beginning May 20. The affected devices…
RJ Scaringe Has Raised More Than $12 Billion Across Rivian, Also, And Mind Robotics
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across multiple startups over the past decade, placing the Rivian founder among a small group of entrepreneurs capable of repeatedly attracting large-scale…