YC-backed Circleback is out to become the best meeting notetaker

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

As the number of startups offering speech-to-text services is increasing, meeting transcripts are becoming a common offering. There are plenty of tools that offer AI assistants that either join the meeting or capture your system’s audio to transcribe and summarize your meetings. Y Combinator-backed Circleback wants to differentiate itself by providing detailed notes and action […]
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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well.
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The Crypto Industry Is Helping Trump Pick SEC Chair

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

The president-elect’s transition team is consulting with industry leaders as it vets potential replacements for outgoing chair Gary Gensler, sources tell WIRED.

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OpenAI’s Sora appears to have leaked

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what they’re calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI’s part. On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI’s Sora API, which hasn’t yet been made public. Using their authentication tokens […]
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Perplexity mulls getting into hardware

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X yesterday that he was considering making a “simple, under $50” device to “reliably answer” questions “voice to voice.” He promised that Perplexity would “definitely” sell such a device if the post got more […]
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Margrethe Vestager, the World’s Top Tech Cop, Is Making Her Exit

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, who put technology’s harms on the global agenda, reflected on a decade of taking on the biggest companies and what comes next.

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Biden Cuts Intel’s Chip Award

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

The Silicon Valley company will receive less money from the CHIPS Act after winning a $3 billion military contract and changing some of its investment commitments.

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Huawei Targets Apple with Advanced Chip Innovation in China

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.

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Spotify debuts marketing tools and insights for audiobook authors

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Spotify on Tuesday introduced a new set of tools for authors and publishers distributing their audiobooks on its platform with the launch of Spotify for Authors. Similar to its existing efforts, Spotify for Artists and Spotify for Creators (previously Podcasters), Spotify for Authors will allow writers and publishers to track insights and analytics about their […]
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Major UK, US stores face ongoing disruption after ransomware attack hits supply chain giant Blue Yonder

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

The Arizona-based firm said it has “no timeline” for restoration, following a cyberattack that caused disruption at companies around the world.
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