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iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO

May 8, 2024

iRobot Tuesday announced the successor to longtime CEO, Colin Angle. Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a major shift from his predecessor, Angle, a cofounder of the company who held the role from 1997 until January of this year. Cohen joins […]

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Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

May 8, 2024

Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever earnings call, CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the company is now working on automatic translations of the site’s content, in real-time, into French, thanks to advances in […]

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EU grills Elon Musk’s X about content moderation and deepfake risks

May 8, 2024

The European Union has deepened the investigation of Elon Musk-owned social network X it opened back in December, under the bloc’s online governance and content moderation rulebook: the Digital Services Act (DSA). Confirmed breaches of the regime could be expensive for Musk as enforcers are empowered to issue fines of up to 6% of global […]

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Atlan scores $105M for its data control plane, as LLMs boost importance of data

May 8, 2024

For the founders of Atlan, a data governance startup, data has always been at the heart of what they do, even before they launched the company. In fact, co-founders Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka got their start building India’s national data platform called SocialCops. So it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that they have […]

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Xona Space Systems closes $19M Series A to build out ultra-accurate GPS alternative

May 8, 2024

For decades, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has maintained a de facto monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing, because it’s cheap and already integrated into billions of devices around the world. But Xona Space Systems thinks a more accurate system will be necessary to scale autonomous vehicles (AVs), advanced robotics and other technologies for the […]

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