Category Archives: Tech News

Sources: EU regulators asked Google for more info in October about a secret ads partnership with Meta which skirted Google's own rules for targeting minors (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: EU regulators asked Google for more info in October about a secret [...]

10
Dec
A study involving 747,604 women finds those who paid extra for AI-enhanced mammograms were 21% more likely to have breast cancer detected than those who didn't (Margherita Bassi/Gizmodo)

Margherita Bassi / Gizmodo: A study involving 747,604 women finds those who paid extra for [...]

09
Dec
Meta says there are no plans to release its AI-powered coding tool Metamate externally; Metamate lacks the more autonomous, agent-like features of rivals' tools (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Meta says there are no plans to release its AI-powered coding tool Metamate [...]

08
Dec
Galaxy Research: crypto lending via DeFi apps and centralized providers grew ~3x YoY to $36.8B in the first nine months of 2024; DeFi lender apps handled ~$31B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Galaxy Research: crypto lending via DeFi apps and centralized providers grew ~3x YoY to [...]

07
Dec
In a recent discussion, YC partners said the incubator was deluged with applications from startups looking to develop AI agents, which could become the new SaaS (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

Enhance support agent productivity with Zoho Marketplace  —  Zoho Desk is a customer service platform [...]

06
Dec
Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extract insights from customer feedback, raised a $20.8M Series A led by Canaan, bringing its total raised to $25M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extract insights from customer feedback, raised [...]

05
Dec
FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as [...]

03
Dec
Sources: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was given the option to retire or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn around Intel (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was given the option to retire or be removed [...]

02
Dec
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages (Iris Kim/NBC News)

Iris Kim / NBC News: How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American [...]

01
Dec
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and "it was 100% a political kill" (David Marcus/@davidmarcus)

David Marcus / @davidmarcus: Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or [...]

30
Nov