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Coincover raises $30M to help protect digital assets from hacks and human error
Coincover, a digital asset protection company, has raised $30 million to protect people and their digital assets from hacks or human error.
Coincover raises $30M to help protect digital assets from hacks and human error by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Arrcus snaps up $50M for a software-based alternative to costly network router equipment
Software may be eating the world, but it’s all still largely running across very physical, and often very expensive, equipment. That is now slowly starting to change, though. Today, a startup called Arrcus — which has built a software alternative for carriers and other major connectivity users looking for more flexible, and cheaper solutions to […]
Arrcus snaps up $50M for a software-based alternative to costly network router equipment by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
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Egyptian health tech Yodawy raises $16M, backed by Delivery Hero Ventures
Without proper government-led public health initiatives, healthcare expenditures, including insurance and pharmaceutical drugs, can burden individuals and households. In recent years, private institutions have played a massive part in the considerable uptake of medical insurance and medicines and also in lowering the costs of getting them across Egypt, the largest producer of pharmaceuticals across the […]
Egyptian health tech Yodawy raises $16M, backed by Delivery Hero Ventures by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: Google announces global rollout for AI-driven ‘multisearch’ on mobile devices
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Daily Crunch: Google announces global rollout for AI-driven ‘multisearch’ on mobile devices by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT
One of the more interesting, but seemingly academic, concerns of the new era of AI sucking up everything on the web was that AIs will eventually start to absorb other AI-generated content and regurgitate it in a self-reinforcing loop. Not so academic after all, it appears, because Bing just did it! When asked, it produced […]
AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Hands-on with the new Bing
Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up in […]
Hands-on with the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch