Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach
The individuals are accused of hacking over 100 U.S. organizations over the course of a decade
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Gemini Robotics uses Google’s top language model to make robots more useful
Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do until now. The team hopes…
How One Company Is Transforming the $900B Beverage Industry
AMASS Brands redefines premium beverages, earning investments from Derek Jeter, Adam Levine, and others with nationwide presence at major retailers like Whole Foods.
Black Women Are Using Side Hustles to Mitigate the Pay Gap. Is It Helping or Hurting Them?
DEI expert Nika White discusses how side hustles — while serving as a supplementary income — are also hurting people of color, particularly women.
Disney Is Cutting 200 Jobs, Eliminating FiveThirtyEight, and Consolidating ABC News’ ’20/20′ and ‘Nightline’ Teams. Here’s What We Know.
The cuts were announced on Wednesday in an internal memo.
Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation
Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The equity funds were raised at a valuation of “just under $250 million.” The company last raised a $20 million Series A announced in September […]
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Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to keep you scrolling and engaged. Dating apps hide all the […]
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EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge
The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring — was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and […]
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AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments. Andrew G. Barto, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Richard S. Sutton, a professor at […]
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YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which would allow users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. As an entry-level subscription, the new tier would not offer the other benefits of the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription like downloads, background play, or the ability to […]
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Google’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothing
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a new AI image feature for its Shopping tab, designed to help users find clothing items they envision by allowing them to search using their own words. The company is also expanding its AR beauty and virtual try-on tools. The new feature, “Vision Match,” is now available in […]
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