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Google Maps officially updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday. Among many other executive orders, President Donald Trump decreed on the day of his inauguration that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the Gulf of America. This executive order also reverses an Obama-era move to rename…

Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

February 10, 2025

Zeta valued at $2B in new funding

February 10, 2025

Zeta, a provider of banking software to banks and fintech startups, has raised $50 million from a strategic investor at a $2 billion valuation. The new investment from American healthcare company Optum marks a 70% increase in the Bengaluru-based startup’s valuation from the $1.15 billion price tag (pre-money) it earned in 2021, when it raised…

Apple and Google take down malicious mobile apps from their app stores

February 10, 2025

Plaid working with Goldman Sachs on raising $300M to $400M in tender offer

February 10, 2025

Plaid, a company that connects bank accounts to financial applications, is working with Goldman Sachs on a deal to allow early-stage investors and employees to sell existing shares, which will raise between $300 million and $400 million, Bloomberg reported citing sources. The tender offer, as such deals are called, will likely value the company lower…

These are the investors funding Musk’s $97 billion OpenAI takeover attempt

February 10, 2025

As if Elon Musk doesn’t have enough going on, a consortium of investors led by him announced plans Monday for what appears to be a hostile takeover of OpenAI. The investor group offered nearly $97.4 billion to buy all of OpenAI’s assets and is “prepared to consider matching or exceeding higher bids,” it said in…

Is AI making us dumb?

February 10, 2025

Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study looking at how using generative AI at work affects critical thinking skills. “Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved,” the paper states. When people rely on generative AI at work, their effort shifts…

Carta settles two more lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination

February 10, 2025

Apple Music adds a better-sounding Spatial Audio version of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

February 10, 2025

If you want to relive Kendrick Lamar’s headline-making Super Bowl halftime show, Apple Music just dropped a replay of the performance in its surround sound-like Spatial Audio. Since Apple currently sponsors the Super Bowl halftime show, the company has permission to republish these musical spectacles — but this is better than just a YouTube video…

Elon Musk led-team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI

February 10, 2025

A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the news with The Wall Street Journal. The unsolicited bid is the latest escalation by Musk in his war with co-founder Sam Altman, as Altman…

Google expands NotebookLM Plus to individual users

February 10, 2025

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

February 10, 2025

Wild Tech appoints Dan Whittle to prepare businesses for AI with managed services Expansion

February 10, 2025

Industry veteran Dan Whittle to spearhead expansion of technology solutions with next generation managed services offering

Free T‑Mobile Starlink beta launched for US public use

February 10, 2025

US mobile operator T-Mobile used the US Superbowl football event to announce a free public beta of its new satellite to smartphone service T-Mobile Starlink.

Telekom Slovenije, Kontron launch first commercial private 5G SA network

February 10, 2025

Slovenia’s largest telecoms provider Telekom Slovenije and embedded systems maker Kontron have implemented the Eastern European country’s first commercial private 5G SA mobile network for chemical processing company Cinkarna Celje.

Macron urges Europe to simplify its regulations to get back into the AI race

February 10, 2025

All eyes were on French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the first day of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris after he annouunced a €109 billion investment package (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) in the French AI ecosystem on Sunday evening. He reiterated this financial commitment from private partners willing…

Rivian opens commercial van sales to all businesses

February 10, 2025

Rivian will sell its commercial electric vans to any U.S. business that wants one — more than a year since ending an exclusivity deal with backer Amazon. The company will sell two vans — the smaller 500 and the larger 700 — but buyers will have to be registered businesses, according to the company. That…

Video: How Vega Cloud Helps MSPs Solve Cloud Billing Errors

February 10, 2025

Managing cloud environments is already complex—tracking revenue and costs shouldn’t be an added headache. That’s why Vega Cloud developed Vega for MSPs, a purpose-built platform designed to help managed service providers optimize cloud spend, enhance financial accountability, and drive operational efficiency. In this episode of Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Vega Cloud…

Perplexity’s Super Bowl ‘tweet’ increased app installs by 50%

February 10, 2025

Perplexity’s Super Bowl contest managed to move the needle on its app’s downloads. Unlike OpenAI and Google, the AI search engine chose to forgo an expensive Super Bowl ad in favor of a tweet — sorry, an X post — encouraging users to download its app and enter a contest that could result in a…

Mistral gets down to business

February 10, 2025

Hundreds of heads of states, tech CEOs and nonprofits have flocked to Paris for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. So far, the winner of this week’s diplomatic and business parade seems to be Mistral. In business lingo, we would say that the French AI unicorn is experiencing tailwinds. Mistral has been one of the leading…

Revel nabs $60M in New York State funding to build more EV chargers

February 10, 2025

As President Donald Trump attempts to freeze funding for a $5 billion federal EV charging infrastructure program, some states are stepping up. EV charging infrastructure startup Revel secured Monday a $60 million loan from New York’s clean energy investment fund NY Green Bank to more than triple its current public fast charging network in NYC. …

Google-backed public interest AI partnership launches with $400M+ pledged for open ecosystem building

February 10, 2025

Make room for yet another partnership on AI: Current AI, which is being billed as a “public interest” initiative focused on fostering and steering development of artificial intelligence in societally beneficial directions, was announced at the French AI Action summit on Monday — with an initial $400 million in pledges from backers and a plan…

TikTok influencers are wearing Apple Watches on their ankles

February 10, 2025

A report from The New York Times over the weekend highlights the small – but apparently growing – trend of users wearing their Apple Watches on their ankles. What’s becoming something of a viral sensation on social platforms like TikTok is the result of a pragmatic decision. Some Apple Watch owners’ wrists are simply too…

AI-driven ads take the field during the 2025 Super Bowl

February 10, 2025

We’ve officially experienced an AI Super Bowl, people. As everyone tuned in to watch the annual championship game, the biggest buzz wasn’t just about the Eagles’ blowout win and Kendrick Lamar performing his Grammy-winning diss track at the halftime show. It was also about AI being a consistent theme in several of the multi-million dollar ad…

Lyft to launch Mobileye-powered robotaxis ‘as soon as 2026,’ starting with Dallas

February 10, 2025

Ride-hail giant Lyft plans to bring fully autonomous robotaxis, powered by Mobileye, to its app “as soon as 2026” in Dallas, with more markets to follow, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The news comes a day before Lyft shares its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings report, and it coincides with Waymo’s preparations to launch a commercial…

Syncro’s New Chairman on Disrupting Market, Supporting IT Teams & MSPs

February 10, 2025

Platform provider for MSPs and IT professionals Syncro recently announced the appointment of Peter Gyenes as chairman of its board of directors– a move that comes on the heels of the company looking to expand its platform from MSPs to also support internal IT teams. Gyenes takes the role of chairman after decades of leadership…

Syncro’s New Chairman on Disrupting Market, Supporting IT Teams & MSPs

February 10, 2025

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns policymakers not to let sci-fi sensationalism shape AI rules

February 10, 2025

Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who also founded World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to give the opening speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit which is taking place this week. While she shared some of her talking points over the weekend, her stance on AI regulation and the…

Media giant Lee Enterprises confirms cyberattack as news outlets report ongoing disruption

February 10, 2025

How APIs give organisations the freedom of choice

February 10, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the office technology sector are diversifying to reduce risks and explore new revenue streams as print volumes decline globally.1 SMEs that are prioritising operational efficiency, flexibility, and futureproofing are looking to technology like application programming interfaces (APIs) and artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt existing systems for new…

WolfVision VZ-2.UHD Visualiser transforms classroom learning with advanced imaging technology

February 10, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Almost all (95%) of Australian students use computers at school, highlighting the need for teaching tools that integrate into technology-driven learning environments.[1] The new WolfVision VZ-2.UHD Visualiser offers educators an innovative solution to create engaging lessons that resonate with students in classrooms and online.

How to outsmart ransomware and build resilience within your organisation

February 10, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Ransomware is growing more dangerous every day. Strains like LockBit 3.0 are leading the attack, while other groups like Clop, BlackCat/ALPHV, and Royal are constantly changing their strategies to catch businesses off guard. These ransomware groups have evolved their tactics, shifting from single to double and even triple extortion models.

Celonis research finds majority of IT leaders believe they are not maximising their tech investments

February 10, 2025

GUEST RESEARCH: Three quarters (75%) of senior IT leaders globally feel they are not maximising the potential of their tech investments and 87% said they need to better understand how technologies are actually used across the business so they can make the right investment decisions.

Newgen supports Enterprise Bank through digital transformation

February 10, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Newgen’s Commercial Lending solution helped maximize the bank’s efficiency, with 120 users processing 150-200 loans & modifications monthly.

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Macron unveils a $112B AI investment package, France’s answer to Stargate

February 10, 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) on Sunday evening. This week, Paris is hosting the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit — the third international summit focused on AI after the one in Bletchley Park in the U.K., and…

Saudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform

February 9, 2025

Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiations, and deal with delayed payments. In Saudi Arabia, where trillion-dollar infrastructure and real estate projects are underway, these inefficiencies are even more pronounced. To address this, BRKZ, a Riyadh-based construction tech startup, offers a tech-enabled managed marketplace that…

Vodafone Business partners with Mobily to expand IoT footprint in Middle East

February 9, 2025

Vodafone Business IoT has inked an agreement with Saudi telecoms provider Mobily to offer IoT connectivity services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Telstra, Ericsson, Qualcomm claim record 5G uplink speed

February 9, 2025

Telstra in collaboration with telecoms vendor Ericsson and mobile chipset OEM Qualcomm claims to have set a record uplink speed of 516 Mbps, surpassing the previous record of 447 Mbps set in October 2024.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

February 9, 2025

In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most…

DeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models

February 9, 2025

The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such as plans for a bioweapon attack and a campaign to promote self-harm among teens, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sam Rubin, senior vice president at Palo Alto Networks’ threat…

Fortinet delivers unmatched security and efficient network performance for the distributed enterprise with new next-gen firewalls

February 9, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: New FortiGate G series next-gen firewalls empower customers to strengthen threat protection and future-proof IT infrastructure.

Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro 2 on February 11

February 9, 2025

Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro headphones as early as February 11, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The announcement is likely to be on the smaller side, given that the company has not yet issued invites for either an in-person or virtual event. A new iPhone SE would mark the fourth…

Here are five startups that are running Super Bowl ads this year

February 9, 2025

Super Bowl weekend is here with the Philadelphia Eagles set to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Sunday evening. While many folks tune in to the Super Bowl for the actual football, others do so for the halftime performance, and some tune in just for the ads. The ad roster this…

Investments in French AI ecosystem reach $85B as Brookfield commits $20B

February 9, 2025

Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest €20 billion by 2030 in artificial intelligence projects in France (around $20.7 billion at current exchange rates), according to a report from La Tribune Dimanche confirmed by news agency AFP. The majority of the sum will be used to build AI-focused data centers. This announcement is the latest…

These apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols

February 9, 2025

Consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social apps is heating up. Alternative social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon are gaining traction with people looking to leave X, while others are building ban-proof TikTok alternatives on open protocols. Similarly, many independent developers are also working on open, decentralized alternatives to Instagram, Meta’s flagship photo-sharing app…

Telstra and CommBank expand collaboration to ‘increase fraud detection rates’

February 9, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Telstra and CommBank confirmed today they have extended their existing anti-scam and fraud collaboration and announced the use of new ‘fraud Indicator’ technology to help protect Australians from identity theft.

Ricoh recognised by Gartner in its first 2024 Magic Quadrant for Document Management

February 9, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Ricoh has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in its 2024 Magic Quadrant for Document Management, report. This is the first time Gartner has published this Magic Quadrant.

Fergus Appoints Ben Gracewood as Vice President of Engineering

February 9, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Engineering leader to oversee global technology direction

Melbourne Charity to benefit from Rimini Street Foundation Grant

February 9, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Melbourne is one of 10 cities around the world chosen by the Rimini Street Foundation as part of a US $100,000 Charitable Grant Giveway, in which ten charities will each receive a US $10,000 grant.

How to use Apple’s new event planning ‘Invites’ app

February 9, 2025

Apple has released a new app called Invites that is designed to make it easy to create custom invitations for events using an iPhone or on the web. Invites is Apple’s version of Partiful, a popular invitation app that was crowned Google Play’s Best App of 2024. Invites lets you create and share invitations, RSVP…

The best operators in Delta Force: who to choose for maximum impact

February 9, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Delta Force is back, combining massive 32v32 battles with operators that bring unique abilities to every fight. Choosing the right operator isn’t just about personal preference—it’s about maximizing your impact on the battlefield. If you’re looking to stay ahead of the competition with the best gaming tools, SecureCheats provides the latest Delta Force…

Puntonet Ecuador to boost fibre broadband network to 10G using XGS-PON

February 8, 2025

Puntonet Ecuador, one of the largest ISPs in the country, has deployed Nokia’s XGS-PON fibre solution, to provide up to 10Gbps broadband access to homes and businesses across 37 cities in Ecuador.

Nigeria launches national initiative to accelerate broadband penetration

February 8, 2025

The Nigerian Ministry of Communications has launched an initiative called the National Broadband Alliance for Nigeria (NBAN), targeted at boosting broadband development in Africa’s most populous country.

Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook

February 8, 2025

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to motion and subtle changes in movement.” To illustrate its point, Apple pays homage to Pixar,…

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’

February 8, 2025

Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist and startup founder sometimes known as “the Godmother of AI,” has outlined “three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking” ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. First, Li said policy must be based on “science, not science fiction.” In other words, policymakers should focus on…

Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu calls for diversity in the teams building AI

February 8, 2025

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Raji Arasu, the CTO of Autodesk, said that she’s been using AI for “multiple decades” to solve software-related challenges. “When traditional…

Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license

February 8, 2025

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” by the OSI’s formal “definition,” then that software is open source. But waters muddy when you get into the nuts and…

Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased

February 8, 2025

Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely to works created with AI, an announcement that has been met with mixed reviews. The auction, which Christie’s is calling ‘Augmented Intelligence,’ will feature artwork from artists including Mat Dryhurst, the founder of AI…

Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

February 7, 2025

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany

February 7, 2025

OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT maker plans to open an office in Munich in the coming months. “Germany is renowned for its technical expertise, academic excellence, and industrial innovation,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a statement. “Opening our first office in Germany means we…

Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation

February 7, 2025

Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion, it’s in talks to raise another $2.5 billion, at a valuation of up to $28 billion, sources told CNBC. The deal would, not surprisingly, be led by Founders Fund, which is reportedly writing a $1…

Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions

February 7, 2025

The Department of Transportation has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at least $31 million from. The move is widely viewed to be illegal. It’s the latest attempt from the Trump administration to hack away at federally funded renewable energy projects around the country, a clear priority…

Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B

February 7, 2025

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption

February 7, 2025

On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, ecommerce company Shopify published a blog post making its stance on U.S. trade policy clear. In the post, Shopify endorsed “open trade,” calling for regulators to give online merchants the “freedom to expand without constraints imposed by geopolitical…

One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

February 7, 2025

Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his life looked very, very different. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

February 7, 2025

Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. “I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an onstage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this…

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Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

February 7, 2025

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves. Crucial to that mission is Dojo, Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer designed to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some…

Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair

February 7, 2025

A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government’s decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The group, which includes U.S. tech outfits such as Yelp, DuckDuckGo, and Mozilla, say that the CMA must be “free from political…

DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists

February 7, 2025

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition. The system, called AlphaGeometry2, is an improved version of a system, AlphaGeometry, that DeepMind released last January. In a newly published study, the DeepMind researchers behind…

Ex-Apple engineer issues apology after lawsuit over Journal app, Vision Pro leaks is dismissed

February 7, 2025

A former iOS engineer, who was sued by Apple for leaking confidential information to journalists, has issued an apology after the lawsuit against him was dismissed. The lawsuit, which was filed last year, alleged that Andrew Aude sent thousands of messages to journalists at The Wall Street Journal and The Information about more than a…

The biggest breach of US government data is under way

February 7, 2025

Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections

February 7, 2025

A number of startups are racing to make vehicle inspections faster, easier, and cheaper. Self Inspection, a startup based in San Diego, thinks it has them all beat with its AI-powered service — and now it has convinced outside investors. Self Inspection, founded in 2021, is set to announce Thursday it’s raised $3 million in…

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

February 7, 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…

Amazon deletes ‘inclusion and diversity’ language in latest filing

February 7, 2025

Amazon is the latest tech company to remove references to “inclusion and diversity” from its 10-K report. The filing has removed reference to diversity and inclusion as it pertains to the workplace. In its 2023 10-K form, the company had a sentence that read “As we strive to be Earth’s best employer, we focus on investment and…

Video: How Hack The Box Fast-Tracks Enterprise Deals With Channel Partners

February 7, 2025

Doing business with massive enterprises usually means navigating a maze of red tape, long approval processes, and legal roadblocks. But Hack The Box is changing the game—leveraging channel partners to streamline deals while opening doors for new relationships and revenue opportunities for solution providers. In this episode of Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down…

VC Mike Ghaffary is looking for the job-creating AI startup that doesn’t yet exist

February 7, 2025

Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

February 7, 2025

Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round

February 7, 2025

Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation

February 7, 2025

Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of “at least” $20 billion, according to Reuters. It’s not clear how much Safe Superintelligence — which has yet to generate any revenue — is looking to secure, but it could be substantial.…

HPE begins notifying data breach victims after Russian government hack

February 7, 2025

PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development

February 7, 2025

The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output. So think tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, which present the user with a blank field…

Pinterest lists DEI attacks as possible business risk in latest filing

February 7, 2025

Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing. The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” then it “may not be able to attract and retain talent” and that the company…

Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M

February 7, 2025

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maintain their children’s activity levels in the absence of mandatory physical education classes and sports. The two friends’ solution was Hiveclass, a New York-based edtech platform that hosts online courses for…

Qualys Introduces Managed Risk Operation Center Partner Alliance

February 7, 2025

Cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions provider Qualys is introducing its new Managed Risk Operations Center (mROC) Partner Alliance. This alliance will allow select Qualys partners to expand their revenue streams by offering advisory, onboarding, integration, and remediation through a unified managed service that helps clients identify, quantify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks. Qualys partners…

Accenture Centers AI Across 2025 Business Goals

February 7, 2025

Accenture recently announced the launch of its new AI Refinery for Industry. The program will begin with a collection of 12 solutions to assist enterprises with rapidly building and deploying a network of AI agents to enhance the workforce, address industry-specific challenges, and drive business value faster. Channel Insider spoke with Sen Ramani, data and…

Coalition of US states to file lawsuit after Musk’s DOGE gains access to Americans’ personal data

February 7, 2025

UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: report

February 7, 2025

Composo helps enterprises monitor how well AI apps work

February 7, 2025

AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power them have a ton of useful applications, but for all their promise, they’re not very reliable. No one knows when this problem will be solved, so it makes sense that we’re seeing startups finding an opportunity in helping enterprises make sure the LLM-powered apps they’re paying…

PowerSchool data breach affected 16,000 students in the UK

February 7, 2025

UAE to invest billions to build AI data center in France

February 7, 2025

A few days ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, the French presidency has announced the first of several expected financial initiatives related to AI. France’s Emmanuel Macron and the United Arab Emirates’ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have signed an agreement for a significant investment to build a massive data center dedicated…

Meta is studying how humans and robots can collaborate on housework

February 7, 2025

Meta Friday announced PARTNR, a new program designed to study human-robot interaction (HRI). The research is specifically focused on how humans and robots might collaborate in the home environment. That includes mundane tasks like cleaning, cooking, and picking up food deliveries. Automated housework is a decades-old dream, most prominently captured by The Jetsons’ Rosie. The…

Meta launches new program to improve speech and translation AI

February 7, 2025

Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will help the development of future openly available AI. The program, the Language Technology Partner Program, is seeking collaborators who can contribute more than 10 hours of speech recordings with transcriptions, large amounts of written text,…

Swiggy, 2024’s biggest tech listing, falls below its IPO price and 2022 valuation

February 7, 2025

Indian food delivery company Swiggy’s stock fell below both its IPO price and its last private valuation as mounting losses and a wavering market position in quick commerce pressured its margins in the last quarter. The food delivery company’s stock fell as low as ₹374.80 ($4.29) on Thursday below its November IPO price of ₹390,…

India to launch new domain name for banks to fight digital fraud

February 7, 2025

India’s central bank is introducing an exclusive “.bank.in” domain for banks from April 2025 as part of efforts to combat rising digital payment frauds and bolster trust in online banking services. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) will serve as the exclusive registrar for the new domain, the Reserve Bank of…

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