Tesla plans to almost double component sourcing from India to $1.9B this year, says minister

September 13, 2023
Tesla is planning to nearly double its component sourcing from India to up to $1.9 billion this year, the nation’s trade minister has said, underscoring the growth of electric-vehicle component manufacturing in the country. But Tesla’s long-floated promise of plans to build its own plants in the country remains electric dreams. Tesla bought $1 billion […]

Amazon debuts generative AI tools that helps sellers write product descriptions

September 13, 2023
Amazon today introduced a new set of generative AI tools aimed at sellers which the retailer says will simplify the process of creating product listings. The retail giant claims these new capabilities are designed to help sellers generate “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details.” Sellers will also be able to add to their existing […]

Swan secures $40 million to bring embedded banking to Europe

September 13, 2023
For the past few years, everybody working in fintech has been talking about embedded finance. It’s supposed to be the next revolution in financial services — bringing financial services to other products and services so that these services are as seamless as possible for the end users. That’s why it’s interesting to see that Swan, a […]

Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans

September 13, 2023
176 days after launching its Firefly generative AI models into beta, Adobe today announced that Firefly is now generally and commercially available in its Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud. This means, for example, that Firefly features like generative fill and generative expand in Photoshop are now available without having to install the […]

Port is aging well as developer portal concept takes shape

September 13, 2023
Port’s founders decided to build a developer portal, a central place for developers to find all the information about their development projects, at a good time. Companies have been recognizing the need for this tool, pushed in part by Spotify Backstage, an open source project released several years ago by the music streaming service. This […]

WhatsApp is launching its Channels feature globally

September 13, 2023
WhatsApp announced today that it is expanding its Channels feature, aimed towards broadcasted messages, globally. The company said Channels will be available to all users in more than 150 countries over the next few weeks. In June, Meta first introduced Channels on WhatsApp to users in Colombia and Singapore. Later, it expanded this feature to […]

X Corp faces Dutch privacy class action over MoPub data trading

September 13, 2023
Make way for another Dutch class action privacy damages lawsuit — this one targeting the company formerly known as Twitter (now X Corp); and MoPub, the mobile ad platform it used to own (before selling it to AppLovin at the start of last year), which is accused of “illegal trafficking” of millions of app users’ […]