December 25, 2025

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

December 15, 2022

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 million in a seed-funding round co-led by Acrew Capital and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures and Aviso Ventures. Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as […]

Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Artifact wants to record your family history in podcast-like audio recordings

December 15, 2022

After Ross Chanin’s grandfather died, Chanin mourned not only him, but the fact that he’d never gotten a chance to hear more about his grandfather’s life. Over a conversation with a journalist friend, George Quraishi, it became clear to Chanin that Quraishi’s skill set — interviewing and audio editing — could be conducive to capturing […]

Artifact wants to record your family history in podcast-like audio recordings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Zipline is now the national drone service provider for Rwanda

December 15, 2022

Zipline got its start six years ago using its autonomous electric drones to deliver blood in Rwanda. Now, the logistics and drone delivery startup is expanding its Rwandan government partnership with a lofty aim: complete nearly 2 million instant deliveries and fly more than 200 million autonomous kilometers in the country by 2029. The government […]

Zipline is now the national drone service provider for Rwanda by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation

December 15, 2022

The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that aims to enable developers to build new mapping products thanks to its interoperable map data and new tooling. The new organization was founded by AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, but the organization stresses that it is “open to […]

AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft to start multi-year rollout of EU data localization offering on January 1

December 15, 2022

Microsoft will begin a phased rollout of an expanded data localization offering in the European Union on January 1, it said today. The EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, as it’s branding the provision for local storage and processing of cloud services’ customer data, is intended to respond to a regional rise in demand […]

Microsoft to start multi-year rollout of EU data localization offering on January 1 by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Twitter’s decline, and explaining fusion

December 15, 2022
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. We’re witnessing the brain death of TwitterThe state of Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover feels like a brain death: the processes that keep it online are somehow still beating, but what Twitter was…

Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data

December 15, 2022

The Linux Foundation has partnered with some of the world’s biggest technology companies to develop interoperable and open map data, in what is a clear move to counter Google’s dominance in the map data realm. The Overture Maps Foundation, as the new effort is called, is officially hosted by the Linux Foundation, but the program is driven […]

Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

What you really need to know about that fusion news

December 15, 2022
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. There’s been a fusion breakthrough. No, for real this time. There are plenty of quips about fusion power, and there’s a reason that the technology has a bit of a “boy who cried…