July 3, 2025

The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans

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. Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality —Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company…

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Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles

February 22, 2023

Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a long-term partnership designed to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps and YouTube provided by the tech giant. It’s an unusual deal that attempts to strike a Goldilocks-type balance between offering the Google services consumers want without ceding control over the […]

Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Mercedes adding Luminar lidar to more vehicles in multibillion-dollar deal

February 22, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has agreed to a “multibillion-dollar” deal with Luminar to integrate lidar technology and software into the German automaker’s next-generation of vehicles set to go into production by the middle of the decade. The deal announced Wednesday during an event at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America facility in Sunnyvale, California is an expansion […]

Mercedes adding Luminar lidar to more vehicles in multibillion-dollar deal by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features

February 22, 2023

Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders is now open to the public, no sign-up required. Last month, Instagram’s creators Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, unveiled their latest venture as an invite-only experience, promising their news app would later evolve to include social elements, like being able to discuss the news with friends. […]

Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Estimating impact of data breaches on brands and defining a future-ready strategy

February 22, 2023
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Brands must safeguard themselves against potential threats and consider security a priority. Watch the discussion between industry leaders—Vishal Salvi from Infosys, Bill Mew from The Crisis Team, and Ameya Kapnadak from Interbrand—on the Infosys Brand Study, specifically concerning cybersecurity. Click here…

Entering the software economy

February 22, 2023
The acceleration of digital transformation and speed of customer demands is turning almost every business into a technology business. Creating, using, or selling technology is now a critical part of every enterprise. But how do companies add emerging technologies and innovations?  Many companies looking to enter the software economy, the ecosystem of companies that create…

Digital business building driven by conviction and experimentation

February 22, 2023
Investors today no longer reward companies for incremental changes in their core business. Embracing digital throughout the business can help traditional companies exponentially increase value and their ability to compete with digital natives, if done correctly. However, an EY-Parthenon report finds that 70% of digital investments don’t capture their intended value and only 16% of…

Improving trust in autonomous technology

February 22, 2023
The combined power of AI and robotics is revolutionizing mobility and manufacturing. Automated vehicles, airplanes, people movers, and warehouse robots are improving in their range, flexibility, situational awareness, and intelligence, while better technology, a hunger for increased productivity and efficiency, and the pressures of covid-19 lockdowns have fueled investment in autonomous systems. In 2020 and…

Google Cloud partners with Tezos blockchain to bring web3 technology to its customers

February 22, 2023

Google Cloud has partnered with the Tezos Foundation to grow its web3 application development and provide new services for its customers, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Tezos as an ecosystem has built a reputation in institutional and B2B onboarding,” Mason Edwards, chief commercial officer at Tezos Foundation, said to TechCrunch. “This is going to enable […]

Google Cloud partners with Tezos blockchain to bring web3 technology to its customers by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch