SpinLaunch raises $11M but hoped to raise much more, source says
Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells technewss that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year.
The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Excha
AWS’ Trainium2 chips for building LLMs are now generally available, with Trainium3 coming in late 2025
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). These chips, which AWS first announced a year ago, will be four times as fast as their predecessors, with a single Trainium2-powered EC2 instan
AI comes to software reviews as Stackfix raises $3M
Marketplaces for software and services based on reviews are starting to reach their sell-by date. The user-generated reviews on sites like G2 and Capterra (one of Gartner's three software directories) have often been accused of being paid for by software vendors.
In fact, eight out nine of th
FTC bans two data brokers from collecting and selling Americans’ sensitive location data
Two U.S. data brokers have agreed not to collect private location data on Americans as part of a pair of settlements with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which accused the companies of unlawfully tracking millions of people near to sensitive locations like healthcare facilities and military base
Cyber Monday: $49.7B spent online globally, Cyber 'Week' totalled $314.9B
The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday — in the first critical week of the holiday shopping season.
On Monday, as many U.S. consumers returned to work after the long weekend, online shoppin
Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps
At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation. Fast-forward to the end of the year, Meta claims those fears did not play out, at least on its platforms, as it shared that the te
Amazon Music launches 2024 Delivered, its take on Spotify Wrapped
Amazon Music announced on Tuesday the launch of 2024 Delivered, a new personalized yearly recap feature inspired by Spotify's popular Wrapped experience. The feature delivers a summary of your listening habits, including your top artists, songs, genres, and more.
To see your 2024 Delivered,
Hypelist wants to break lists out of silos and put recommendations first
There are plenty of services that let you build lists to track and discover new books, movies, and songs, but often, these lists end up getting siloed. Former Squarespace employee Alfonso Cobo wanted to bring all kinds of lists together, and he’s trying to do that with Hypelist.
Cobo said th
Google’s video generator comes to more customers
Google’s video generator is coming to a few more customers — Google Cloud customers, to be precise.
On Tuesday, Google announced that Veo, its AI model that can generate short video clips from images and prompts, will be available in private preview for customers using Vertex AI, Google Cl
Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD's AI chatbot
Had Yurts founder Ben Van Roo's eyes been better, he might've followed in his family's footsteps and joined the Air Force. “My whole family was in the Air Force. All of them are pilots,” he said, admitting later that, “my vision wasn’t quite there.”
Instead, he's he
FireDome launches projectiles filled with fire retardants to stop wildfires
Fighting wildfire is a lot like waging war. There are foot soldiers and paratrooper-like smokejumpers, air support from airtankers, and mobile centers that can direct firefighter movements in the field.
“It's a battlefield,” Gadi Benjamini, co-founder and CEO of FireDome, told technewss.
Apple Music’s 2024 Replay rolls out to all users
As users around the world await their Spotify Wrapped stats, Apple Music’s answer to the popular feature is now available to everyone. The Spotify Wrapped-like feature, called Apple Music Replay, gives users a look back at their year in music by highlighting their top songs, artists, and albu
AWS re:Invent 2024: What to expect and how to watch Amazon’s biggest event of the year
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year has begun, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicked off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman marks the start of tod
Intel’s ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger set to net $10M in severance pay
Intel’s newly departed CEO Pat Gelsinger could be walking away with just over $10 million in severance pay.
As per a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, Intel and Gelsinger entered into a “retirement and separation agreement” that will entitle the form