February 17, 2026

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

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. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…

Erudit raises $10M to monitor workplaces for ‘misalignment’

September 26, 2023
Employee surveillance is on the rise. According to one poll, searches for staff monitoring software rose by 75% in March 2020 compared with the 2019 monthly average — and demand remained strong in 2021 and 2022. It’s a spike mostly attributable to the shift during the pandemic to hybrid work. A 2022 Microsoft survey found […]

What’s changed since the “pause AI” letter six months ago?

September 26, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Friday marked six months since the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit focusing on existential risks surrounding artificial intelligence, shared an open letter signed by famous people such as Elon Musk,…

Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app

September 26, 2023
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Likewise, if they want to support payments there’s Stripe, or for maps there’s the mighty Google. But what if a developer is tasked with building real-time multiplayer collaboration […]

Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries

September 26, 2023
Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the UK. The tie-up, which expands the range of groceries on tap for Uber Eats’ users, is slated to cover other markets where the pair operate in Europe in the coming weeks — so presumably it’ll launch in Germany and […]

AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts

September 26, 2023
Kneron, which is developing AI chips to power self-driving cars, among other autonomous machines, today announced that it raised $49 million in an extension to its Series B round from investors including Foxconn, Alltek, Horizon Ventures, Liteon Technology Corp, Adata and Palpilot. Kneron’s CEO, Albert Liu, says that the new tranche, which brings Kneron’s total […]

Europe is working to slow down the global expansion of Chinese EVs

September 26, 2023
The boom has finally been lowered on Chinese electric-vehicle companies. On September 13, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union speech to announce that the organization is launching an “anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicles coming from China.”  The move—which could have serious ramifications for global automakers—has long been in…