Secure These 3 Energy Stocks Amid Conflict
Amid the ongoing volatility in the Middle East, the oil market is delicately balanced and on the brink of significant price surges. Given this backdrop, quality energy stocks Marathon Petroleum…
YouTube’s New Tool Lets Politicians Hunt Down AI Deepfakes of Themselves — Before They Go Viral
The technology launched last year for 4 million YouTube creators and is now expanding to a pilot group of government officials and candidates.
Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
OpenAI held its first developer event on Monday and it was action-packed. The company launched improved models to new APIs. Here is a summary of all announcements in case you missed the event. ChatGPT’s user milestone After a year of its launch, ChatGPT is pretty popular. OpenAI said that more than 100 million people are […]
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GM halts production of Cruise Origin robotaxi amid suspended operations
Cruise is pausing production of its purpose-built robotaxi, the Origin — the autonomous vehicle company’s latest setback amid suspended operations and increased scrutiny from regulators. Forbes first reported the news, citing audio of Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt’s address at an all hands meeting Monday. TechCrunch has confirmed the news with sources who spoke to us […]
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Mamaearth makes public debut, youngest Indian unicorn to list
Shares of Honasa Consumer, the parent firm of direct-to-commerce beauty and personal care Mamaearth, jumped slightly in a key public listing watched by many Indian startups as they evaluate their own initial public offerings. Mamaearth, a seven-year-old company, was trading at 331.45 Indian rupees ($3.98) per share on NSE, above its 330 Indian rupees listing […]
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WeWork, once worth $47 billion, files for bankruptcy
Flexible-office-space firm WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a stunning change in fortune for the once high-flying startup co-founded by Adam Neumann and bankrolled by SoftBank. The New York-based firm has listed both assets and liabilities in the range of $10 billion to $50 billion in its petition filed in a New Jersey federal […]
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Why this autonomous vehicle veteran joined a legged robotics startup
Zhang Li‘s career path has looked like a bellwether for China’s tech trends. When the Cisco veteran joined WeRide in 2018, the Chinese autonomous vehicle company was less than a year old. In the next few years, the country would become a breeding ground for three AV unicorns, including WeRide, of which valuation surged to […]
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‘I Was Unable to Breathe’: American Airlines Flight Attendants Awarded Over $1 Million After Jury Finds Uniforms Contained Toxic Chemicals That Made Them Sick
American Airlines had switched to the new uniforms in 2016.
Max Q: Will Starlink IPO?
In this issue: Breakeven cashflow for Starlink, news from Kuva Space and more
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Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than […]
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Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week
It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the year to become CEO at dating app Bumble. Sources, who chose to speak on background because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, […]
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