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Stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras on balloons could help you get your insurance claim check faster

Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn, New York-based startup, invented stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras that fly on weather balloons.

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Farewell to Foursquare’s app

“I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, speaking about the company’s plan to sunset the Foursquare City Guides app … Continue reading

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SEC fines four companies $7 million for ‘misleading cyber disclosures’ regarding SolarWinds hack

The SEC concluded that four tech companies misled investors and minimized the damage they suffered from the SolarWinds supply chain hack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.

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Starboard Value’s Jeff Smith says Salesforce has ‘a lot more to go’ and can get more profitable

Salesforce has become more profitable in the past few years, but one activist investor says there’s more for the software company to do.

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Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.

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Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78

Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer bulletin board, a forerunner of online services like Reddit, TikTok and Facebook.

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Elon Musk’s Big Business and Conflicts of Interest With the U.S. Government

Mr. Musk, who holds billions in federal contracts, wants to be in charge of the regulators that oversee him if Donald Trump wins.

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E.U. Partners With Venture Capital Firms to Boost Tech Investment

The E.U. has been heavily criticised for not doing enough to bridge the technological gap between it and other global superpowers.

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Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping

What do the actor Kevin Bacon, the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the musician Robert Smith, and the journalist and historian Sidney Blumenthal have in common? They are among the 11,500 signatories of a petition against unlicensed use of creative works for … Continue reading

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