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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Washington, DC-based Cape, which is developing a mobile service that doesn’t ask for customers’ personal data, raised a $40M Series B co-led by A-Star and a16z  —  AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts affected — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users … Source […]

One 97 Communications Limited (OCL), which owns the brand Paytm, has received the nod from NPCI to start the user migration to new Payment System Provider (PSP) bank handles, the company informed the stock exchanges in a filing on Wednesday. Following NPCI’s approval on March 14, 2024 to onboard OCL as a Third-Party Application Provider

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China’s cyberspace officials citing national security concerns  —  China’s cyberspace officials cite national-security concerns for targeting the Meta apps, Apple says Source link

Wayve unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-based vision-language-action driving model (VLAM) Lingo-2 on Wednesday. Lingo-2 comes as the successor of the Lingo-1 AI model and has multiple new capabilities. The autonomous driving AI can now offer commentary of its actions while driving as well as adapt its actions based on the passenger’s instructions. It can also

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind  —  Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O) said on Thursday it would consolidate teams that focus on building artificial intelligence models across … Source link

Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it will soon start adding a watermark to the artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images created using its tools. The platform allows its premium users to generate AI images through the platform’s native conversational chatbot ‘My AI’ and its Dreams feature. The watermark will be a visual addition to highlight that it

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines  —  Transistor shrinking intensifies.  —  Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry’s … Source link

Boston Dynamics unveiled the next generation of its humanoid Atlas robot on Wednesday. The announcement came just a day after the company retired the hydraulic Atlas robot. The new Atlas is fully electric and comes with several upgrades over the predecessor, including a superhuman range of motion. In a video, the slender and more athletic

Wall Street Journal: Investigation: Amazon sells ~$1M per year in goods on eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and Amazon via its “Big River” arm, to get data on pricing, logistics, and more  —  Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission … Source link

Meta Platforms and other large online platforms should offer users the option to use their services for free without targeted advertising, the EU privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, responding to the company’s paid ad-free service that has triggered criticism. The US tech giant launched the no-ads subscription service for Facebook and Instagram in Europe last