November 21, 2024

How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models

OpenAI is once again lifting the lid (just a crack) on its safety-testing processes. Last month the company shared the results of an investigation that looked at how often ChatGPT produced a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a user’s name. Now it has put out two papers describing how it stress-tests its powerful…

November 2023

Motional and Hyundai to jointly build IONIQ 5 robotaxi in Singapore

November 21, 2023

Hyundai Motor Group and Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture aimed at commercializing autonomous vehicles, announced plans Tuesday to co-develop production-ready versions of the all-electric IONIQ 5 robotaxi at the automaker’s new innovation center in Singapore, the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore (HMGICS). Motional will deploy the vehicles as part of its commercial service in […]

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The 2024 35 Innovators Under 35 competition is now open for nominations

November 21, 2023
We like to think of the annual 35 Innovators Under 35 competition as the flip side of our popular 10 Breakthrough Technologies list. With 10 Breakthrough Technologies we ask: What groundbreaking innovations will affect our lives over the next few years? With Innovators Under 35, we ask: Which young people are doing the most promising…

3 Beverage Stocks Brewing Profits in November

November 21, 2023
The beverage industry’s outlook appears optimistic owing to consistent demand and high-growth opportunities to meet shifting consumer preferences amid growing health awareness worldwide. Amid this backdrop, it could be wise…

S&P 500 Rises with Anticipated Rate Cuts

November 21, 2023
Introduction The S&P 500 has experienced remarkable gains, rising 10% over the past three weeks. This surge came on the heels of the last Federal Reserve meeting, during which the…

Twelve Below secures $108M across two new funds

November 21, 2023

Twelve Below aims to lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed financings with the goal of earning a 10% to 15% ownership stake in the core investments from the fund.

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EU widens scope of food delivery cartel concerns probe

November 21, 2023

European Union antitrust regulators have carried out another series of raids on two online food delivery companies headquartered inside the bloc. The Commission hasn’t named the companies involved but the move follows unannounced EU inspections back in July 2022 — which were reported to have taken place at the offices of Spain’s Glovo and German’s […]

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Meta responds to calls for greater transparency with a new research database

November 21, 2023
Meta is releasing a new transparency product called the Meta Content Library and API, according to an announcement from the company today. The new tool will allow select researchers to access publicly available data on Facebook and Instagram in an effort to give a more overarching view of what’s happening on the platforms.  The move…

India’s anti-money laundering agency finds $1 billion violation at Byju’s

November 21, 2023

India’s Enforcement Directorate, its anti-money laundering agency, has found that Byju’s violated the nation’s foreign exchange law to the tune of $1.08 billion, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The findings, which ED plans to make public as early as Tuesday, follows the agency searching the premises of Byju’s and its founder Byju […]

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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal

November 21, 2023

A Google executive said during a testimony in the Epic vs Google trial that a deal with Spotify allows the audio company to bypass Play Store fees, as reported by The Verge. Don Harrison, Google’s head of partnership, said that Spotify pays no fees when it processes its own payments and pays a measly 4% […]

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