Gozem nets $30M to expand vehicle financing, digital banking in Francophone Africa

Since its launch in 2018 as a ride-hailing service in Togo, Gozem has steadily expanded across French-speaking West Africa, integrating a wide range of services as it sought to become a super app. The company now offers ride-hailing, commerce, vehicle financing, and digital banking across Togo, Ben

Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea

Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia's largest fertility providers.  Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that led to sensitive patient information potentially be

Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affe

ElevenLabs now lets authors create and publish audiobooks on its own platform

Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, technewss has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-

Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI

Anthropic, one of the world’s largest AI vendors, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropic’s model ecosystem growing so quickly

How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT keeps expanding with new features. The chatbot’s memory feature lets you save preferences so that chats are more tailored to you. ChatGPT also has an upgraded voice mode, letting you interact with the platform more or less in real time. It ev

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

A demo from Optifye.ai, a member of Y Combinator’s current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials. Optifye says it’s building software to help factory owners know who's working — and who isn't — in “real-time” thanks to

Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train

Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d re

DOGE has an official ‘acting’ administrator, and it’s not Elon Musk, White House confirms

Amy Gleason has been named as the acting administrator of DOGE, the ostensible head of the Trump administration team of Elon Musk advisors and associates known as the Department of Government Efficiency, technewss has confirmed. The news, first reported by Semafor, is the first time the White Hou

Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down

Lucid Motors is changing CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The company announced Tuesday that Peter Rawlinson is stepping down from the CEO and CTO roles that he’s held since before the company went public. Rawlinson has also left Lucid’s board, according to a regulatory fili

Apptronik's humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves

Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot

Framous is a new Mac app for adding device frames to screenshots 

A new Mac app called Framous launched on Tuesday, giving you the ability to add device frames around screenshots to make them look more professional.  The helpful new tool can aid app developers, graphic designers, and even journalists who need to add an iPhone or Mac frame — also known as a mo

Why OpenAI isn’t bringing deep research to its API just yet

Updated 4:11 p.m. Eastern: OpenAI said that its whitepaper was incorrectly worded to suggest that its work on persuasion research was related to its decision on whether to make the deep research model available in its API. The company has updated the whitepaper to reflect that its persuasion work i

Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web

Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others. Launched as a Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry went on to raise over $17