Reuters: SoftBank-backed AI data security company Cohesity agrees to acquire the data protection unit of multi-cloud data management firm Veritas, sources say for ~$3B  —  SoftBank Group (9984.T) -backed Cohesity told Reuters on Wednesday it agreed to acquire the data protection business … Source link

Airport security in India asks passengers to remove all personal gadgets like mobile phones, tablets, and laptops from their hand baggage and place them separately in trays for a scan. While this is a necessary step to ensure that the devices are safe to be taken on an aircraft, it does pose considerable inconvenience for

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta challenges the EU’s DSA supervisory fee of 0.05% of Meta’s annual net income that cover regulators’ costs, disagreeing with how the fees are calculated  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) has challenged a supervisory fee amounting to .05% of its annual worldwide net income aimed … Source link

The Naruto live-action movie has reportedly found its writer. As per Variety, Tasha Huo, best known for Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin and the upcoming Tomb Raider animated show, will serve as the scribe for the Naruto adaptation. Development on the film has been in limbo for years at Lionsgate, and this would mark the

Josh Boak / Associated Press: The Biden administration names White House economic adviser Elizabeth Kelly to lead the NIST’s newly formed AI Safety Institute to develop AI testing standards  —  The Biden administration on Wednesday named a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence. Source link

WhatsApp already offers a disappearing messages feature that deletes a sent message after a set amount of time. WhatsApp users can also send photos and videos that can only be viewed once before being erased from the chat. The latter feature, however, is currently available only to Android and iOS users. The feature was previously

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing two types of agent software: one to automate tasks by effectively taking over a user’s device, and the other for web-based tasks  —  OpenAI’s first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of wannabes. Source link

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the speech recognition abilities of its transcription tool. Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, now offers support for over 100 languages, thanks to a new speech foundation model. The AWS service utilises machine learning techniques to automatically convert speech to text for businesses. Amazon Transcribe is used

Manya Saini / Reuters: PayPal reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $8B, vs. $7.87B est., and total payment volume up 15% YoY to $409.8B, vs. $404.45B est.  —  PayPal (PYPL.O) beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday as more Americans used its payments platform for shopping during the holiday season. Source link

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth features the biggest map in the Yakuza franchise. Marking the series’ first venture outside of Japan, the upcoming title will transport players to the tourist hotspot of Hawaii — Honolulu City, to be exact. Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio claims that the vast new stage is more than three times