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Amazon has been working on ramping up how it works with telecoms carriers as customers and partners — an ambition pushed in no small part by slowing growth for cloud services overall at AWS and its big rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Now, one week ahead of MWC in Barcelona — one of the […]

Amazon’s AWS cozies up to carriers, launches 2 services to build and operate networks in the cloud by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund, has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. The new round for […]

Amazon backs Indian meat startup FreshToHome in $104 million funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk tweeted Saturday a ChatGPT conversation that speculated about the 2019 transition of its creator, OpenAI, from a non-profit to a for-profit organization. The AI chatbot concluded that, if the for-profit business had used the non-profit’s resources for the change, it would have been “highly unethical and illegal.” It appears that Musk and ChatGPT […]

The non-profits accelerating Sam Altman’s AI vision by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

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. How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars? Before most people could realize what was happening, China became a world leader in electric vehicles. And the momentum hasn’t slowed: In…

Understanding shifts in how buyers are researching, evaluating, selecting and purchasing software is critical to accelerating growth.

SaaS leaders: Use customer insights to accelerate growth during a downturn by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Have you been threatened by an AI chatbot yet? Over the past week it seems like almost every news outlet has tried Microsoft’s Bing AI search and found that the chatbot makes up stupid and creepy stuff. It repeatedly told a New York Times tech columnist that it “loved” him, then claimed to be “offended” by…

Nakeema Stefflbauer had only lived in Berlin for a couple of years when refugees from countries such as Syria and Iraq began arriving in Germany in great numbers in 2015. A native New Yorker who was familiar with Arabic and Middle Eastern culture from her travels in the area, Stefflbauer decided to volunteer to support…