These 5 Economic Trends Will Drive Consumer Spending in 2024
Consumers have been spending like there’s no tomorrow — but has tomorrow finally arrived?
It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty
AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite their stricter content moderation policies. Now new research shows that not all chatbots are equally willing to talk dirty: DeepSeek is the easiest to convince. But other AI chatbots can be enticed too, if…
March 2024
Amazon teams with recycling robot firm to track package waste
Amazon generate a lot of trash. Precisely how much is a matter of some debate. In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so pounds of single-use plastic in its packaging. Nonprofit ocean conservation firm Oceana, on the other hand, put that figure at approximately ~700 million pounds. That’s a huge gulf, but […]
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Remofirst raises $25M to take on Deel and Rippling in the global HR tech space
Remofirst says that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 10x since it raised its $14.1 million seed round in September 2022.
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Elevate Your Portfolio With These 3 Steel Stocks
Following a slowdown in demand and destocking measures undertaken last year, the global steel industry is expected to see demand recover this year. Given this backdrop, investors could consider buying…
Should Stock Investors Be Scared by Recent Sell Off?
Most everyone knows the famed motto of the news business that “fear sells”. Well that is also true in the investment media where a scary headline about stock declines is…
Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. So far, electric vehicles have mostly been discussed in the US through a scientific, economic, or environmental lens. But all of a sudden, they have become highly political. Last Thursday, the Biden…
Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks to GenAI
This year, billions of people will vote in elections around the world. 2024 will see — and has seen — high-stakes races in more than 50 countries, from Russia and Taiwan to India and El Salvador. Demagogic candidates — and looming geopolitical threats — would test even the most robust democracies in any normal year. […]
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Apple releases a new API to fetch transactions from Apple Card and Apple Cash
Apple’s iOS 17.4 update is primarily about adapting iOS to EU’s Digital Market Act Regulation. But the company has also released a new API called FinanceKit that lets developers fetch transactions and balance information from Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Savings with Apple. At launch, the company has partnered with YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot. In […]
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LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use
At the moment, large organizations often employ ‘business intelligence’ (BI) tools to figure out what the heck is going on side their operations. This has spawned many lumbering leviathans of the software world. Now a UK startup Fluent has closed a $7.5 million seed investment round led by Hoxton Ventures and Tiferes Ventures to apply […]
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MDaaS raises $3M to improve healthcare access and expand network across Nigeria
MDaaS Global, a Nigerian health tech company that operates a network of tech-enabled diagnostic centers across the country, has secured $3 million in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by Aruwa Capital and Newton Partners, the latter of which was the lead investor in the health tech’s $2.3 million seed extension in 2021. MDaaS […]
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