Uber Eats Launches Cart Assistant To Speed Up Grocery Shopping With AI
Feature Launch And AvailabilityUber Eats on Wednesday announced a new AI feature called Cart Assistant that is designed to help customers fill grocery carts more quickly, and the company said…
Apple Delays Rollout Of AI-Powered Siri Features Again, Bloomberg Reports
Revised Timeline For Siri Updates Apple’s plans for a redesigned, AI-powered version of Siri have been pushed back again, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The new version…
OpenAI Disbands Mission Alignment Team And Names Former Leader Chief Futurist
Team Disbanded And ReassignmentsOpenAI has disbanded a team that was created to communicate the company’s mission to the public and to its own employees, and the company confirmed to TechCrunch…
Amazon Pharmacy Plans Same-Day Prescription Delivery Expansion To Nearly 4,500 U.S. Cities
Expansion Of Same-Day Delivery Network Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 cities and towns in the United States by the end of this year, adding…
Musk Tells xAI Staff He Wants A Moon Factory To Build AI Satellites, Times Reports
All-Hands Meeting And Lunar Plan Elon Musk told employees at xAI during an all-hands meeting on Tuesday night that the company needs a manufacturing facility on the moon, according to…
OpenAI Fires Vice President Of Product Policy After Discrimination Complaint, Journal Reports
Termination Reported By The Wall Street Journal Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sexual…
Amazon Weighs Content Marketplace For Publishers To License Data To AI Companies
Amazon’s Reported Plans Amazon is considering a marketplace that would let publishers license their content directly to AI companies, according to The Information, as technology firms continue to look for…
Report Says Google Shared Student Journalist’s Account Data With ICE After Non-Judicial Subpoena
Google provided U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with personal data tied to the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist, in response to an administrative subpoena that…
Singapore Says Chinese-Linked Group Targeted Major Telecom Firms In Months-Long Cyber Operation
Government Confirms Targeting Of Telecom InfrastructureSingapore’s government said a known Chinese cyber-espionage group targeted four of the country’s largest telecommunications companies in a months-long operation, marking the first time authorities…
Apptronik Expands Series A To $935 Million As Valuation Reaches About $5.3 Billion
Expanded Fundraising Round University of Texas spinout Apptronik, which builds humanoid robots for companies including Google DeepMind, said on Wednesday that it has re-opened its Series A round and raised…
Former GitHub CEO Raises $60 Million Seed Round For AI Code Management Startup Entire
Funding And ValuationFormer GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has raised what his lead backer Felicis described as the largest seed round ever for a developer tools startup. The company, called…
Britney Spears Sells Entire Music Catalogue To Primary Wave For About $200 Million
Deal And PartiesPop star Britney Spears has sold the rights to her entire music catalogue to independent publisher Primary Wave for about $200 million (£146 million), the BBC reported. The…
Instagram Head Tells Court Platform Use Limits Vary By Individual In Youth Mental Health Trial
Court Testimony And Case ScopeThe head of Instagram told a California court that it is not possible to define a single level of use that is harmful for everyone, arguing…
Anthropic Nears $20 Billion Fundraise At $350 Billion Valuation As AI Spending Rises
Fundraising Round And Investor LineupAnthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the…
Hacktivist Scrapes 536,000 Payment Records From Stalkerware Vendor, Exposing Customer Data
Breach And Scope Of DataA hacktivist has scraped more than half a million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade phone surveillance apps, exposing customer email addresses and partial payment…