Musk dodged Brazil’s X ban by ‘coincidence,’ says Cloudflare CEO
X went back online in Brazil earlier this week, three weeks after Elon Musk’s platform was blocked under orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court. That prompted Brazil’s top court to fine X Corp. nearly $1 million for every day the platform remained accessible in the country.
However,
Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX for trespassing
Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is suing Elon Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, for $15 million after it allegedly dumped construction equipment all over the game company's private land in Texas.
An email, posted on Threads, went out to around 150,000 Cards Against Humanity Saves Am
Grok's image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources
While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks. Multiple sources tell us that Black Forest Labs — a startup that’s building generative AI image models
Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others so far in 2024
If you love gadgets and gizmos, this year's product conferences have been right up your alley.
We've poked through the many product announcements made so far this year by the biggest tech companies and trade shows to create a list of what we think are the most important, or the most intere
The 25 battery tech startups that just got a piece of $3B in federal funds
The federal government is handing out another $3 billion to startups in the buzzy battery tech sector.
The investment, which the Biden administration announced Friday, is the latest injection of capital to come from a $16 billion pot that the Department of Energy set aside to build out local
The iPhone 16 launches today without its most hyped feature: Apple Intelligence
The iPhone 16 officially goes on sale Friday. But for its earliest adopters, it arrives with a fundamental compromise baked into the deal.
Put simply, this is not the iPhone 16 that they were promised. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it would be the “first iPhone built for Apple Intelligence.” But tha
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of “non-democratic” countries as part of a major overhaul of the company.
The company, which was founded in Canada, publish
Plaud’s $169 ChatGPT-powered NotePin has a permanent place in my travel bag
The Plaud.AI pin took up mercifully little space in my carry-on. It also presented an opportunity to kill two birds: I was flying across the country and knew I would be taking copious notes.
If you've been in a meeting with me, you know I bring my laptop without fail. My dumb brain needs to ta
M&As and AI are in the spotlight, but there’s still capital left for quick commerce and more
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This week brought reassuring signs that dealmaking is still happening on both sides of the table. New unicorns are being minted, and more
Apple Intelligence: Its biggest features and when you can expect them
Apple’s iPhone 16 is out, but the company hasn’t made its iOS 18 Apple Intelligence features available to all consumers just yet. In July, Apple rolled out these features to users on the iOS 18 developer beta and added the AI features for public beta users earlier this week. However, if
YouTube tests a new way for creators to avoid takedowns
YouTube is now testing a new feature that will let creators edit their videos to remove age restrictions and restore videos that had been impacted due to certain Community Guidelines violations.
Until now, if a video received an age restriction label or was removed for breaking YouTube’s Co
After X’s ban in Brazil, Tumblr reports ~350% user growth
Bluesky isn’t the only social networking service to benefit from X’s ban in Brazil, now under legal penalties. Tumblr this week is also reporting an increase in both active users and blog creation, the company tells technewss.
According to Tumblr, in the days since the X ban in Brazil
LinkedIn has stopped grabbing UK users’ data for AI
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now.
Stephen Almond, executive director of regulatory risk for the Information Commissioner’s Office, wrote in a statement on Friday: “We&nbs
Microsoft taps Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
The data centers that train the large language models behind AI consume unimaginable amounts of energy, and the stakes are high for big tech companies to ensure they have enough power to run those plants. That’s why Microsoft is now throwing its weight behind nuclear power.
The tech giant on