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‘Pro-competition’ rules for Big Tech make it through UK’s pre-election wash-up

The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer bill (DMCC) — removing the last obstacle to the bill becoming … Continue reading

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Arc Search’s new Call Arc feature lets you ask questions by ‘making a phone call’

Call Arc can help answer immediate and small questions, according to the company.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Paris transit passes now available in iPhone’s Wallet app

After multiple delays, Apple and the Paris area transportation authority rolled out support for Paris transit passes in Apple Wallet. It means that people can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch as a Navigo pass to ride the metro, … Continue reading

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Redwood Materials is partnering with Ultium Cells to recycle GM’s EV battery scrap

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles.  The company announced Thursday that it’s working with Ultium Cells, the joint battery manufacturing … Continue reading

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Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form

Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure

ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real changes to the rest of the computing system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops

On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than … Continue reading

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Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catchup with … Continue reading

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The new Kia EV3 will have an AI assistant with ChatGPT DNA

The Kia EV3 — the new all-electric compact SUV revealed Thursday — illustrates a growing appetite among global automakers to bring generative AI into their vehicles.  The automaker said the Kia EV3 will feature a new voice assistant that is … Continue reading

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Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly. But this outage also appears to still be affecting … Continue reading

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