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How ‘The Electric State’ team created a world of unlikely robots

March 14, 2025

The new Netflix movie “The Electric State” depicts a world full of robots — but not robots as we know them. Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo (who previously helmed two Avengers blockbusters, “Infinity War” and “Endgame”) for a reported budget of $320 million, “The Electric State” takes place in an alternate version of…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

March 14, 2025

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership…

Startups Weekly: Founders may be raising less, but deals haven’t been lacking

March 14, 2025

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week showed more optimism among startups than in other corners of the world, with entrepreneurs feeling confident enough to acquire other companies, raise fresh funding, and…

Rafay and Netris Partner to Rapidly Scale AI Capabilities

March 14, 2025

Recently, Rafay Systems and Netris announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of GPU cloud infrastructure and rapidly scale AI capabilities. GPU platforms available through partnership Rafay, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service capabilities for self-service compute consumption, and Netris, a networking automation provider, will collaborate to accelerate the consumption and monetization of GPU-based infrastructure with…

Arizona proposes law that would shift wildfire liability from utilities to insurers

March 14, 2025

Arizona lawmakers are debating a bill that would protect utilities from wildfire-related lawsuits, a move that would likely send shockwaves through the insurance industry. The bill would make it harder to prove that utilities are to blame for wildfires started by faulty or poorly maintained equipment while also limiting damages. In exchange for reduced liability,…

No one knows what the hell an AI agent is

March 14, 2025

Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that agents will replace certain knowledge work. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Salesforce’s goal is to be “the number one provider of digital labor in the world” via the company’s…

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

March 14, 2025

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its…

What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it

March 14, 2025

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Just this past month, the app experienced a temporary outage in the U.S. that left millions of users in suspense before…

iPhone and Android users will soon be able to send encrypted RCS messages to each other

March 14, 2025

Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) yesterday published new specifications for the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol that include support for cross-platform E2EE. RCS is a long-standing effort to enable SMS-style cross-platform communications with richer features, such as group messaging, typing…

Accused LockBit ransomware developer extradited to the US

March 14, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Rostislav Panev, who developed code and maintained infrastructure for LockBit, is now in U.S. custody. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Genesys Unveils New AI Product and State of CX Report

March 14, 2025

Cloud services provider Genesys recently announced a suite of new AI capabilities for contact center supervisors, which will assist organizations in delivering improved customer service. AI-fueled automation promises to save over 400 hours a month The new AI capabilities will enable the automation of routine supervisorial tasks and provide real-time assistance for analyzing data, training…

Keepit Releases New Report on Data Governance

March 14, 2025

Recently, Keepit, a vendor-independent cloud-native data protection platform, released a new report titled “Intelligent data governance: Why taking control of your data is key for operational continuity and innovation.” Report details the need for data governance frameworks This report was developed and published to help IT leaders adopt or create a data governance framework that…

US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple ‘backdoor’ secret hearing in public

March 14, 2025

Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy

March 14, 2025

Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round of the wedding marketplace Cheersy. Cheersy, which was founded in 2024 by Amy Shack Egan, helps couples find day-of service wedding coordinators and has raised a total of $550,000, from other investors including Elizabeth Cutler, co-founder of Soul Cycle…

Trump family is reportedly in talks to acquire stake in Binance’s US arm

March 14, 2025

President Trump’s family has been weighing an investment in Binance.US, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The investment would come just a couple of years after Binance’s U.S. arm pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulation. As part of that guilty plea, Binance’s founder Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, paid a…

SoftBank buys $676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in Japan

March 14, 2025

SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic partnership with others like OpenAI. On Friday, the tech company confirmed it would pay $676 million for factory previously used by Sharp to build LCD panels to convert…

Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone

March 13, 2025

Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to…

Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’

March 13, 2025

In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement – wants to start “foodome” sequencing. “We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which means test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the American diet based on stuff…

Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model

March 13, 2025

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text…

Rad Power Bikes already has a new CEO

March 13, 2025

Rad Power Bikes has named a new CEO, just a few days after its previous leader stepped down. The e-bike company has tapped Kathi Lentzsch, who has spent the last few decades helping turn around underperforming companies in both the consumer and B2B spaces. The change comes as Rad Power continues to shift away from…

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation

March 13, 2025

Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition…

Android is adding Auracast support, which allows hearing aids to connect to public audio broadcasts

March 13, 2025

Google announced on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments. With Auracast, compatible hearing aids and earbuds can receive direct audio streams, such as a PA system at a train station or…

Oracle is reportedly a top choice for helping run TikTok

March 13, 2025

TikTok has until April to finalize a sale to a U.S.-based buyer, yet uncertainties about the future of the short-form video app remain. However, a new report has emerged, suggesting that Oracle is the leading candidate to serve as the cloud technology partner for managing TikTok in the U.S., according to The Information. Sources including…

Amazon is still hosting stalkerware victims’ data weeks after breach alert

March 13, 2025

Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU

March 13, 2025

Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead Rumman Chowdhury is worried about Musk’s impact on the federal government

March 13, 2025

Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, nonprofit founder, and former director of Twitter’s machine ethics team, had strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during an SXSW panel on Thursday. “When your funding is frozen and you don’t know if you’re gonna be fired, and there’s this, like, absolutely unhinged person…

Minimalist Light Phone III launches March 27

March 13, 2025

Light, the maker of a minimalist phone designed to help consumers disconnect from smartphone distractions and social media, will launch its newest model, the Light Phone III, on March 27. This version of the device, like its older counterpart, offers a simple black-and-white display and necessary features like support for calls, texts, navigation, alarms, hotspots,…

10 startups to watch from Y Combinator’s W25 Demo Day

March 13, 2025

Silicon Valley’s most storied startup accelerator, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday, showcasing its latest batch of 160 startups. Some of Silicon Valley’s most successful startups – including Stripe, Airbnb, and Reddit – started out in a YC batch. Unsurprisingly, many of the startups in this batch are focused on building…

FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money

March 13, 2025

Apple’s Lockdown Mode is good for security — but its notifications are baffling

March 13, 2025

Google wants Gemini to get to know you better

March 13, 2025

In the AI chatbot wars, Google thinks the key to retaining users is serving up content they can’t get elsewhere, like answers shaped by their internet habits. On Thursday, the company announced Gemini with personalization, a new “experimental capability” for its Gemini chatbot apps that lets Gemini draw on other Google apps and services to…

Google introduces new developer tools and titles for games on mobile and PC

March 13, 2025

Google announced new features around PC and mobile gaming today ahead of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), including new titles, control customization, and developer tools for making mobile games available on PC. The company first introduced Play Games for PC in 2022 in the beta phase. Over time, it has introduced the program to various…

Geothermal unicorn Fervo Energy may IPO as early as next year

March 13, 2025

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OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club

March 13, 2025

When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager. One boy refused to tell anyone where he was from, declaring, “I’m from everywhere and nowhere.” Two weeks later, he admitted he…

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March 13, 2025

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Intel Names Lip-Bu Tan as Next CEO

March 13, 2025

Effective March 18, Lip-Bu Tan will take over as the new CEO of Intel, succeeding Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. Tan will rejoin the Intel board of directors after stepping down in August 2024. Frank Yeary, who took on the role of interim executive chair during the CEO search, will revert to being…

OpenAI calls for US government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI training

March 13, 2025

In a proposal for the U.S. government’s “AI Action Plan,” the Trump Administration’s initiative to reshape American AI policy, OpenAI called for a U.S. copyright strategy that “[preserves] American AI models’ ability to learn from copyrighted material.” “America has so many AI startups, attracts so much investment, and has made so many research breakthroughs largely…

TechCrunch All Stage unveils a powerhouse agenda for founders

March 13, 2025

TechCrunch All Stage (formerly Early Stage) returns to Boston on July 15, and the agenda for our tentpole East Coast founder event is almost complete. We’re excited to share this sneak peek at some of the fantastic speakers and sessions we have on tap. For builders who are just starting on their founder journey, our…

Southern Cross Care Qld ‘more than halves’ staff turnover with Humanforce

March 13, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Australian born global provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions Humanforce has partnered with Southern Cross Care Queensland (SCCQ), a not-for-profit aged care provider, to “dramatically reduce” its staff turnover.

UiPath is looking for a path to growth in agentic AI with its Peak.ai acquisition

March 13, 2025

A rush of agentic AI solutions is hitting the enterprise market, and now one of the bigger players in automation has scooped up a startup in the space in hopes of taking a bigger piece of that business. UiPath, as part of its quarterly earnings last night, announced that it acquired Peak.ai, a startup out…

ClickUp is launching a revamped calendar tool for task and meeting management

March 13, 2025

Productivity platform ClickUp launched a revamped calendar tool that integrates tasks, docs, chats, and meetings in one place. The most interesting features of the calendar are an integrated AI meeting notetaker and AI-powered time blocking for tasks. ClickUp already had a calendar product, but it was focused more on team management and scheduling. Last year,…

Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data

March 13, 2025

Employees at many companies today are expected to make decisions through careful data analysis, but the tools they need to do it are clunky, slow or — in some cases — don’t exist. That’s according to Colin Zima, the CEO of Omni, a business intelligence (BI) platform that aims to help organizations simplify how they…

Sherweb Adds Keepit to MSP Data Security Portfolio

March 13, 2025

Sherweb, a cloud marketplace and distributor for MSPs, recently announced that it would be launching Keepit in its marketplace to enable managed service providers (MSPs) who work with Sherweb to streamline the backup and protection of data critical to internal processes and workloads on Keepit’s cloud-native platform. Keepit adds new backup and data resiliency option…

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Why Software Supply Chain Weaknesses are a Target for AI Tools

March 13, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Attacks on software supply chains are becoming an increasing concern for security teams around the world. These attacks can cause significant disruption or financial losses for those targeted.

SUSE Partners with Infosys to Deliver Complete Enterprise AI Infrastructure

March 13, 2025

New, joint solution will provide enterprises all they need for production-ready AI

Bitdefender Threat Debrief – March 2025

March 13, 2025

GUEST RESEARCH: Bitdefender has combined information from openly available sources (OSINT) – including news reports and research – with data we gather by analysing Data Leak Portals (DLPs), websites where ransomware groups post details about their victims to develop our March 2025 Threat Debrief. It’s important to remember that we can’t independently verify all of…

Rapid Growth of Machine Identities, AI Adoption and Cloud Native Innovations Leave Organisations More Vulnerable to Attacks

March 13, 2025

GUEST RESEARCH: 77% of security leaders view securing machine identities as vital to protecting the future of AI

Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data

March 13, 2025

AI-powered image generators, which are at the center of a number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies, are frequently trained on massive amounts of data from public websites. Most of these companies argue that fair use doctrine shields their data scraping and training practices. But many copyright holders disagree. That’s why some startups and firms developing image…

Telegram introduces trading and yield features for its self-custodial crypto wallet

March 13, 2025

Telegram’s self-custodial crypto wallet, developed by a third-party company called The Open Platform (TOP), has introduced new features for people who don’t just use Telegram as a messaging app. The updates include multi-asset trading and yield functionalities. Based on the TON blockchain, TOP launched the wallet in 2023. The company reported that over 100 million…

Why landlords should run their business in the cloud

March 13, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Cloud computing has gained a reputation for supplying businesses with endless storage space and massive power to run applications smoothly, but it’s not just for tech companies. Cloud technology has completely revolutionized how property managers operate, offering powerful tools for landlords to streamline tasks, improve the tenant experience, and increase profitability.

Xiaomi to preinstall PhonePe’s app store on smartphones sold in India

March 13, 2025

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said on Thursday that its Android smartphones sold in India will come preinstalled with Indian fintech company PhonePe’s app store. Xiaomi’s Android smartphones usually come preinstalled with Google’s Play Store and the Chinese company’s own GetApps. Xiaomi said that it has signed a multi-year deal with PhonePe to replace GetApps with…

Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic

March 13, 2025

A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter. From DDoS attacks to scraping, there’s a renewed barrage of threats that companies have to deal with. According to cybersecurity entrepreneur Nikita Rozenberg, the impact is more severe for SMBs. “The main difference is…

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