May 1, 2026

Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

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Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity

May 3, 2023

Maxar Technologies, the satellite imaging and manufacturing company, has completed its $6.4 billion sale to private equity. The company announced on Wednesday that it was no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange following the closing of the acquisition by PE firm Advent International and minority investor British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. It will […]

Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Google I/O 2023 is next week; here’s what we’re expecting

May 3, 2023

Google’s annual developer conference returns to Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater next week, and for the first time in four years, we’ll be returning along with it. The kickoff keynote is always jammed-packed full of information, debuting all of the different software projects the company has been working on for the past year. The event, which […]

Google I/O 2023 is next week; here’s what we’re expecting by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail

May 3, 2023

Google is going to start displaying a blue checkmark next to select senders’ names on Gmail to verify their identity, the company announced on Wednesday. The new blue checkmarks will automatically appear next to companies that have adopted Gmail’s existing Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) feature. The BIMI feature, which rolled out in 2021, […]

Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch