Google is bringing AI overviews to India, Brazil, Japan, UK, Indonesia and Mexico
After bringing AI overviews to the U.S., Google is expanding the AI-powered search summaries to six more countries: India, Brazil, Japan, the U.K., Indonesia and Mexico. These markets will also get local language support for AI overviews.
The search giant is rethinking how it displays source mater
Meta draws fresh questions from EU over its CrowdTangle shut-down
The Commission is seeking more information from Meta following its decision to deprecate its CrowdTangle transparency tool. The latest EU request for information (RFI) on Meta has been made under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) — an online governance framework which empowers enfor
UK neobank Revolut valued at $45B after secondary market sale
Revolut has confirmed a new valuation of $45 billion via a secondary market share sale, shortly after the U.K.-based neobank secured its own banking license in the U.K. and Mexico.
The news positions Revolut as one of Europe’s most valuable private tech companies.
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California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley. Today, California lawmakers bent slightly to that pressure, adding in several amendments suggested by AI firm Anthropic and other opponents.
On Thursday the bill passed t
Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’
Journalists, researchers and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram.
In CrowdTangle's place, Meta is offering its Content Library — but is limiting usage to people from “qualified ac
Rivian launches smaller $1,400 camp kitchen, 5 years after initial demo
The Rivian camp kitchen attracted buzz from almost the moment it appeared as a prototype in 2019 at Overland Expo West. Despite interest in the accessory, Rivian never actually sold the camp kitchen, which was kind of massive and designed to slide into the R1T pickup truck’s trademark gear tu
3D printing stalwart Formlabs confirms 'small number' of layoffs
Formlabs on Thursday confirmed that it has laid off a “small number” of employees, technewss has exclusively learned. The 3D printing firm says the figure amounts to less than 40 of a total headcount of just under 750 employees.
The layoffs occurred in waves over the past two years, and as re
NASA and Rocket Lab aim to prove we can go to Mars for 1/10 the price
A pair of Rocket Lab-made spacecraft are about to embark on a two-step journey. The first step is the 55-hour, 2,500-mile stretch from California to the launch site at Cape Canaveral. The second step? Just 11 months and 230 million miles to Mars.
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WeRide preps for an IPO, meet the man who built a startup pipeline at CNH and Waymo's nightly honk-a-thon
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Franki’s app rewards you for posting video reviews of local restaurants
Franki is a social discovery and video-based review app where users can interact with a community of foodies, discover local dining spots and create their own videos showing off their favorite restaurants.
Franki recently underwent a brand refresh, which included the introduction of a new “S
Linktree acquires social media scheduler tool Plann
Link-in-bio platform Linktree announced Thursday that it has acquired social media scheduling tool Plann for an undisclosed amount.
While Sydney, Australia-headquartered Plann will continue to operate as usual for now, Linktree is set to integrate its social scheduling tool into its platform in th
Epic Games’ ‘MegaGrant’ makes EU alternative app store, AltStore PAL, available for free
AltStore PAL, an app that takes advantage of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) to bring a third-party app store to EU users, is now available for free, thanks to Epic Games. The app maker announced via social media posts on Wednesday it’s the latest recipient of a “MegaGrant”
CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews
Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week on them. Without enough people, code reviews can be overwhelming and take devs away from other important work.
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X begins rolling out support for passkeys on Android
X, formerly known as Twitter, has announced that it’s rolling out support for passkeys on Android. The launch comes as the social network rolled out support for passkeys to all iOS users back in April.
Passkey logins make it harder for bad actors to remotely access your accounts since they