A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges. The FTC’s investigation into Premom, a fertility tracking app developed by Easy Healthcare that allows users to track ovulation, periods, and other health information, found that the company had shared identifiable health […]
FTC says popular fertility tracking app Premom shared sensitive data with Chinese analytics firms by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Let’s look at the three most important milestones along the road to predictive analysis in the retail media context.
Retail media targeting on the AI maturity curve by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
Micron Technology said it will invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) in Japan for the next few years with support from the Japanese government to up its game in next-generation memory chips. The move indicates that the Japanese government is ambitiously pushing ahead with its semiconductor space resurgence and bringing chip technology into the […]
Micron to invest $3.6B in Japan for next-gen memory chips by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
One pretty obvious aspect of the climate emergency which may have flown under your radar is that human-driven global heating is disrupting traditional approaches to risk modelling around natural disasters since probabilistic models based on stuff that happened in the past start to come unstuck atop so much unprecedented change. Step forward Mitiga Solutions, a […]
Climate risk startup Mitiga gets $14.4M to help businesses face an uncertain future by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Amini, a Nairobi-based climate tech startup focused on solving Africa’s environmental data gap through artificial intelligence and satellite technology, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. Pale Blue Dot, the European climate-focused venture capital firm that announced a $100 million fund last week, led the oversubscribed round. At the same time, Superorganism, RaliCap, […]
Pale Blue Dot backs Amini, an African climate tech startup solving environmental data scarcity by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up its AWS business in the key overseas market at a time when it has cut several other spendings in the region. The company, which has earlier invested $3.7 billion […]
AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
It’s no secret that Elon Musk has been deeply frustrated with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in February 2018, culminating in an open letter calling for the organization to pause work on more powerful systems. “It does seem weird that something can be a nonprofit, open source, and somehow transform itself into a […]
Elon Musk used to say he put $100M in OpenAI, but now it’s $50M: Here are the receipts by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch