Tag: #Startups

How your sun roof has become a national security issue

James Schoruter explains a fairly specific scenario, if not a completely incredible nightmare scenario. Someone drives to your home, cracks your Wi-Fi password, then starts messing around with the solar inverter mounted next to your garage – a modest grey box that converts currents directly from your rooftop panel to alternating currents that run your […]

Ultrhuman gets Vio HealthTech and starts expanding cycles and ovulation tracking

Smart Ring Maker Ultrhuman has acquired women’s health technology company Vio HealthTech to begin advanced cycles and ovulation tracking, the company announced Friday. The financial conditions for the transaction have not been disclosed. Thanks to the acquisition, the company is launching a new plug-in for the superhuman Ring Air called “Cycle and Ovulation Pro.” The […]

ChatGpt’s mobile app has generated $20 billion so far, earning $2.91 per installation

ChatGpt’s mobile app is collecting revenue. App Intelligence Provider Appfigures has shown that since its launch in May 2023, ChatGPT apps for iOS and Android devices have reached $2 billion in global consumer spending. That figure will roughly 30 times the lifetime spend of ChatGpt rivals on Mobile, including Claude, Copilot and Grok, the analysis […]

Louisiana Attorney General sues Roblox

The Louisiana Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the platform of failing to implement basic safety controls and accusing the site of making it the “best place for pedophiles.” The lawsuit filed Thursday by Attorney General Liz Maril alleges that Roblox “continues to promote the distribution of child sexual abuse material and sexual […]

The US government is reportedly being debated to place a bet on Intel

The Trump administration continues to interfere with semiconductor giant Inter. A report from Bloomberg said the US government is reportedly being debated to acquire shares in Intel. The deal will be structured to help expand US manufacturing activities, including the very late Ohio Chip Factory. The news is less than a week after President Donald […]

Bluesky deploys major improvements to policy and community guidelines

Two years after its launch, social network Bluesky has revised its community guidelines and other policies, seeking feedback from users on some changes. The startup, a competitor of X, threads and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policy aims to improve clarity and detail about user safety procedures and appeal processes. Many of the […]

Cohere reaches a $6.8 billion valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia and Salesforce doubled

Cohere announced Thursday it raised an oversubscribed round of $500 million and raised its valuation to $6.8 billion. This rose from the $5.5 billion valuation that landed about a year ago, and rose by $500 million when it raised the previous round. Toronto-Headquarted Cohere was one of the first breakout LLM model manufacturers founded in […]

Leaked Meta AI Rules indicate that chatbots are allowed to have romantic chats with children

Reuters reports that concerns about generic LLM chatbots like chatgpt grow like chatgpt grow each day, and chatbot personas seem to be generating answers that disseminate frivolous exchanges, false information and undermine minorities. According to an internal meta document seen by Reuters, Meta had a policy regarding the behavior of AI chatbots that allowed AI […]

Buzzy AI Startup Multiverse creates two smallest high performance models so far

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two very small AI models. Multiverse computing claims that they are still high performance and are the smallest models in the world that can handle chat, speech, and even in one case. These new little models are intended to be embedded in Internet of Things devices […]