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Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]

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For Bain Capital Ventures, ‘it is 2021 all over again’ (well, almost)

February 28, 2023

Bain Capital Ventures is doubling down on what works, literally. The venture firm, one of Bain’s 11 financial divisions, has raised $1.9 billion across two funds, one for seed to growth-stage startups that hovers around $1.4 billion, and one for later-stage opportunities that closed around a third of that, at $493 million. The capital total […]

For Bain Capital Ventures, ‘it is 2021 all over again’ (well, almost) by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

OnePlus’ first foldable will arrive in the second half of the year

February 28, 2023

The OnePlus that was founded in 2013 was a cautious company, deliberate in its release schedule. The Shenzhen-based firm would announce one to two phones a year, not hung up on being the first to market with new features. It was a cadence that allowed the company to distinguish itself, in part, through pricing, with […]

OnePlus’ first foldable will arrive in the second half of the year by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Why can’t Bitcoin? 

February 28, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Last year, Ethereum went green. The second-most popular crypto platform transitioned to proof of stake, an energy-efficient framework for adding new blocks of transactions, NFTs, and other information to the…

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback

February 28, 2023

Meet Cycle, a French startup that is building a collaboration tool for product managers where they can collect data from various tools, work on the next product iterations and close the feedback loop with the most engaged customers. The company raised a total of $6 million across two funding rounds, including a recent funding round […]

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger

February 28, 2023

No company is immune from the generative AI wave, and everybody wants in. Meta is the latest entrant in testing AI-powered tools for its products. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is building “a new top-level product group” to integrate generative AI into its services used by billions of users. Zuckerberg said the team […]

Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April

February 28, 2023

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […]

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch