Password Authenticator Okta Says Hackers Stole Names and Email Addresses of All Its Customer Support Users
The breach took place in September.
The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
November 2023
Salesforce Ventures and Female Founders Fund back Kenyan climate-tech Amini in $4M seed round
Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund. Climate-tech VC Satgana also participated alongside other investors, including Pale Blue Dot and Superorganism, who had previously backed the startup in its $2 million pre-seed […]
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech
By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming year. This time around, I sat down with Vogels for a wide-ranging interview ahead of his keynote to delve a little […]
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Tech-enabled warehousing startup Huboo raises another $36.6M amid continued e-commerce growth
When consumers switched to home deliveries and “digitized” their lifestyles during the pandemic, it led to a surge in e-commerce sales and thus, also, in the need for warehousing and shipping. But of course, most e-commerce businesses outsource this function. Amazon’s ‘Fulfilled By Amazon’ (FBA) service has boomed on its own platform, but if you’re […]
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Here’s your reminder that Google is deleting inactive accounts tomorrow
As Google ramps up its security measures, the company is deleting inactive accounts that haven’t been touched for two years as a way of protecting users from security threats, such as identity theft, unwanted spam and scams. Starting tomorrow, December 1, Google is removing unattended accounts, including all photos, Drive documents, contacts, e-mails and calendar […]
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Sarah Jessica Parker Uncorks Secrets to Wine Brand Success in Her Latest Entrepreneurial Venture
Parker shares how she’s created a celebrity brand that’s resonating with critics.
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He Co-Founded a Company with Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis. Here’s His Advice for Finding the Best Partners
Lifeforce co-founder Dugal Bain-Kim on the art of building powerful partnerships.
3 Auto Stocks Poised for Potential Big Gains This Month
The auto industry is flourishing thanks to the growing demand for new vehicles, the rapid shift to electric and hybrid vehicles worldwide, and numerous technological advancements. Hence, fundamentally sound auto…
One year later, ChatGPT is still alive and kicking
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot, turns one today. A year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT as a “low-key research preview” — reportedly spurred in part by an intense rivalry with AI startup Anthropic. The goal, OpenAI leadership told the OpenAI rank-and-file at the time, was to gather more data on how people use and interact with […]
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