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When it comes to climate, the picture can look bleak.  Emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change reached a new peak in 2022, according to early estimates. And climate disasters seem to be hitting at a breakneck pace. In 2022, the world experienced record heat waves in China and Europe, and devastating floods…

Microsoft today announced that it’s extending its partnership with OpenAI. The latter will receive a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment from the company — the exact dollar amount wasn’t disclosed — that OpenAI says will be used to continue its independent research and “develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful and powerful.” OpenAI will remain a capped-profit […]

Microsoft invests billions more dollars in OpenAI, extends partnership by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Veteran tech giant PayPal is facing an antitrust investigation in Germany — where the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced it’s looking into its rules on surcharges. The regulator is concerned that restrictions PayPal imposes on merchants could be harming competitors and inflating costs for consumers by restricting price competition. Clauses in PayPal’s terms the […]

Germany is looking into PayPal’s terms for merchants by Natasha Lomas 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 the James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first images back to Earth in July last year, researchers gathered excitedly to pore over them.…

Luis Rubén Chávez, founder and CEO of Zenfi: “If Credit Karma, SoFi, Marcus and Copilot Money had a kid, it would be us.”

Zenfi takes in new funding to bring Mexicans some financial peace by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Negative trade secrets are intended to protect a company’s secret know-how gained from extensive research and investment about what does not work.

Failures are valuable IP: Protect your startup’s negative trade secrets by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

The funds will be used to increase the geographical presence in the country, enhance the technology used, and also to expand their services to alternative energies such as EV, gas etc

Twitter’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, is now open to contributors in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Twitter said over the weekend that it was expanding the contributor base by 10% per week by onboarding new individuals to the program. The social media company has also promised to include people from other countries. […]

Twitter is now accepting Community Notes contributions from four more countries by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch