Spotify's partner program for podcast hosts is now available
Spotify announced Thursday the launch of its new “Partner Program” that lets popular podcast hosts monetize their video content.
Spotify's new program gives qualifying creators on its platform opportunities for extra income beyond just advertising revenue, such as video payouts. The progra
Thomson Reuters acquires tax automation company SafeSend for $600M
Thomson Reuters has acquired tax automation company SafeSend in an all-cash transaction valued at $600 million.
Founded in 2008, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based SafeSend serves a cloud-based platform designed to streamline the processing and sharing of sensitive financial documents. This includes tools
Tesla Cybertruck fails to boost 2024 sales as annual deliveries fall for first time
Tesla delivered fewer cars last year than it did in 2023, marking its first year-to-year drop and signaling that the company is struggling to reach new buyers. That means Tesla’s Cybertruck, which is the company’s first true new model since 2020, did little to boost the company’s
Apheris rethinks the AI data bottleneck in life science with federated computing
AI is fundamentally dependent on data, but the vast majority of health data goes unused for understandable reasons — chiefly patient privacy, regulation, and IP protection.
“This is the core underlying problem” of building AI solutions for life sciences and related areas like pharmaceuti
2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI
A lot can change in a few months.
The climate tech world hasn't exactly been turned upside down, but it's definitely more askew than it was in the summer. The U.S. federal election results may have imperiled the startup-friendly Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), likely throwing a wrench into
Telegram rolls out third-party account verification, filters
Telegram has rolled out its first update of the year, adding a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search filters, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs.
The chat app already had a program to verify public figures and organizations on the platform, and it has no
Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund
Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors.
technewss has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May 2022. Musk posted on X last month that SpaceX
Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024
For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race.
But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry — a vi
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day.
Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighte
Accel closes $650 million for new India fund
Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the South Asian market.
The new fund follows the firm’s seventh India fund secured in March 2022. Accel — which has backed companies including e-commerce group Flipkart,
Will Smith eating spaghetti and other weird AI benchmarks that took off in 2024
When a company releases a new AI video generator, it’s not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti.
It’s become something of a meme as well as a benchmark: Seeing whether a new video generator can realistically render Smith slurping down a bowl
Elon Musk’s promises for Tesla in 2024, from robotaxis to Optimus bots
Elon Musk had an eventful 2024, what with his hard push into right-wing politics and leveraging his X social media platform and considerable influence to help Donald Trump win the presidential election.
Putting politics aside for a moment, it's worth focusing on another Musk pastime: making pr
A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve delivery robot collided in Los Angeles
On December 27, a Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a video that's circulating on social media.
The footage shows a Serve bot crossing a street in West Hollywood at night and trying to get onto the sidewalk. It rea
Tech services firm WWT acquires Canadian IT provider Softchoice in all-cash deal
One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024.
On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis, announced it has agreed to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in a deal that values the latter at $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.25 billion).
The deal,