The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

The US government is calling on a Perplexity executive to help make its case that Google is a monopolist.
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Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks’ record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of the VCs told TechCrunch.
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CrowdStrike Survey Highlights Security Challenges in AI Adoption

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Ideally, generative AI should augment, not replace, cybersecurity workers. But ROI still proves a challenge.

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OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API — yet

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI says it has no plans to release an API for Sora, its AI model that can generate reasonably realistic videos when provided with a text description or reference image. During an AMA with members of OpenAI’s dev team, Romain Huet, head of developer experience at OpenAI, said that a Sora API isn’t in the […]
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Grubhub to pay $25M for ‘deceptive’ practices against customers, drivers

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul over unlawful practices, including misleading customers about delivery costs, deceiving drivers about potential earnings, and listing restaurants on its platform without their permission. The agencies claim that Grubhub hid the true cost of its delivery […]
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AI boom masks fundraising struggles for non-AI startups

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro, proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies that made it this far should prioritize growth over cost-cutting. Yet, the companies still struggling to raise their next round of financing at a higher valuation or survive altogether could still be in the thousands, according to Brian […]
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Bob Lee verdict: Cash App creator’s killer found guilty of second-degree murder

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

A San Francisco jury has found Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing of Bob Lee, the Cash App creator and former CTO of Block, according to NBC Bay Area on Tuesday. The jury found Momeni not guilty of first-degree murder, meaning jurors decided the murder of Lee was not premeditated. Lee was […]
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Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Can You Replicate a Key Phone System In the Cloud?

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Modern business communication solutions make it easy to migrate your key phone system to the cloud without upgrading your equipment.

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Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Techme101

Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (aka the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated within a new nonprofit called A New Social. The organization, announced Tuesday, aims to bring together developers, researchers, startups, and industry leaders […]
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