AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
GameStop (GME) missed first-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, and its near-term prospects look bleak. Moreover, the stock has been on a downtrend over the past few months amid the leadership…
Arm this morning submitted an update to its SEC IPO filing proposing a $47 to $51 share pricing. The high end would put the British chip maker’s valuation north of $52 billion. The firm has seen a banner few years, as the world’s largest hardware makers have adopted its architecture. Arm currently counts Apple, Google […]
Meta today announced that it will be pulling the plug on Facebook News in the U.K., Germany, and France starting in early December. The social networking giant said it was part of its “ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.” Facebook News, for the uninitiated, is […]
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has alerted customers to a data breach involving their personal information. The data breach was first flagged by Troy Hunt, the owner of Have I Been Pwned, who tweeted a copy of the email NXP had sent to customers affected by the breach. Those affected appear to be individuals with an […]
To stay competitive in the crowded market for videoconferencing, Zoom is updating and rebranding several of its AI-powered features, including the generative AI assistant formerly known as Zoom IQ. The news comes after controversy over changes to Zoom’s terms of service, which implied that Zoom reserved the right to use customers’ videos to train its […]
There’s no shortage of chatbot services trying to earn a place in the myriad of channels on Discord and Slack. California-based Gleen, founded by Microsoft and LinkedIn veterans, is offering its enterprise-grade chatbot to the most demanding segment of the market — technical communities, like a blockchain infrastructure channel on Discord, and it has raised […]
Tempus fugit, as Virgil once put it. It was a full 11 years ago that I first noted the appearance of Connect Ventures, one of the early ‘new kids on the block’ amongst the nascent clutch of European tech VCs in that relatively early era. Back then, Connect was one of the few product-focused VCs […]
Two weeks after Intel said it would cancel its plan to acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion amidst pushback from regulators, the two companies intend to work together anyway. Intel today said that it would provide foundry services and 300mm manufacturing capacity to Tower. As part of the deal, Tower would use Intel’s plant in […]