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A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US (Financial Times)

A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable sta...

Financial Times: A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in ...

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady "baseload" power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing n...

Justine Calma / The Verge: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing...

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M paid subscribers over the last year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid (Max Tani/Semafor)

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1...

Max Tani / Semafor: Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M pai...

Some US ride&hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift robotaxis, saying it lets them work longer hours by reducing stress, amid safety concerns (Reuters)

Some US ride&hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD ...

Reuters: Some US ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift rob...

Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, is struggling to meet energy demands from its chip industry; TSMC uses ~9% of Taiwan's electricity (Isabel Hilton/Yale E360)

Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fu...

Isabel Hilton / Yale E360: Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil ...

A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ ...

Wall Street Journal: A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ memb...

A New Setting Makes iPhone&to&Android Texting Easier

A New Setting Makes iPhone&to&Android Texting Easier

RCS lets you see read receipts, typing indicators and high-resolution images.

A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cloud c...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into “AI Neoclouds”, a new breed of cloud compute prov...

Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google rolls out Android theft protection features: The...

Wes Davis / The Verge: Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft...

Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the ...

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the w...

The Hearing Aid Revolution That Wasn't

The Hearing Aid Revolution That Wasn't

Over-the-counter models have high return rates. Can Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 change...

A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex&NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021 (Alan Suderman/Associated Press)

A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity...

Alan Suderman / Associated Press: A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybe...

How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of activity during the livestream shopping boom on Douyin, Kuaishou and other apps, became a cautionary tale (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of ...

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was...

Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me person...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mullenweg says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personal...

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "signi...

Dan Primack / Axios: Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significa...

Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25&megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nu&ntilde;ez/VentureBeat)

Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI mode...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI ...

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilia...

Reuters: Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud ...

Harvard students turn Meta's Ray&Ban Smart Glasses into a surveillance nightmare

Harvard students turn Meta's Ray&Ban Smart Glasses into...

Two Harvard students, Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen, say they have hacked a p...

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, ...

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Faceboo...

Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for generating realistic video and audioclips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Audio has 13B (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for...

Reece Rogers / Wired: Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for ge...

Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16...

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16...

AI to Have Human&Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBank CEO Says

AI to Have Human&Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBa...

Masayoshi Son reiterated his bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence in a ...

This Teenage Hacker Became a Legend Attacking Companies. Then His Rivals Attacked Him.

This Teenage Hacker Became a Legend Attacking Companies...

His life in cybercrime began at age 11, investigators say, and went on to incurs...

CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume fell to 36.6% in September, down from 42.7% at the start of 2024, the lowest level in four years (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume...

Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could v...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that coul...

Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the...

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live...

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini ...

PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary PYUSD stablecoin, paying an E&Y invoice on September 23 via SAP's digital currency hub (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

PayPal completes its first business payment using its p...

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal completes its first business payment using its p...

Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for Eats in Austin now and in Dallas and Jersey City later in 2024, and Avride's autonomous cars in Dallas in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for Eats ...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for...

SoftBank's Son Says Artificial General Intelligence to Be Achieved in a Few Years

SoftBank's Son Says Artificial General Intelligence to ...

SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said he believed artificial general...

A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enforcing AB 2839 on election deepfakes, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 17 (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enfo...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from en...

The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking to reverse a July 2023 ruling that XRP sales on retail exchanges didn't violate securities law (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, se...

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, se...

Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconductor manufacturing facilities that are receiving government subsidies from federal environmental reviews (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconductor...

David Shepardson / Reuters: Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconduc...

OpenAI Nearly Doubles Valuation to $157 Billion in Funding Round

OpenAI Nearly Doubles Valuation to $157 Billion in Fund...

The startup behind ChatGPT raised $6.6 billion from backers including Microsoft,...

AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho&based outsourcing company PartnerHero (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from Ge...

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from...

Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, instead focusing on its chatbots (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has l...

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the st...

The UK FCA fines Starling Bank &pound;29M over its "shockingly lax" controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

The UK FCA fines Starling Bank &pound;29M over its ...

Akila Quinio / Financial Times: The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “sh...

Oracle to Invest $6.5 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure in Malaysia

Oracle to Invest $6.5 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastru...

Oracle Corp. plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to establish a public cloud ...

Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealersh...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealer...

Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its split from Sequoia, with the bulk of the reduction coming at the growth stage (The Economic Times)

Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~...

The Economic Times: Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, ...

Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by the 72B parameter NVLM&D&72B and can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text&only tasks (Michael Nu&ntilde;ez/VentureBeat)

Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led b...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is l...

Dockworkers in US Eastern & Gulf ports go on strike over pay demands

Dockworkers in US Eastern & Gulf ports go on strike...

The union representing 45,000 dockworkers in the United States announced a strik...

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand...

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand...

Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and...

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia&led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emer...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, e...

Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Xero, Seven Group and more in the latest Market Talks covering t...

Snap Failed to Warn Users About Sextortion Risks, State Lawsuit Alleges

Snap Failed to Warn Users About Sextortion Risks, State...

New Mexico has claimed the social-media company’s product features and enforceme...

YC&backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made&up closed license on it (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

YC&backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI ...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI ...

A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's l...

Jody Godoy / Reuters: A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's laws...

Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti&steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store ...

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store...

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