June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

Stellantis to restructure European dealer network in July 2023

November 24, 2022

Stellantis, the parent company to brands like Jeep, Dodge, Fiat, Maserati and Peugeot, said Thursday it would reorganize its European dealer networks in July 2023 in an effort to cut costs and support its investment into electrification. Starting next summer, Stellantis said it would end all current sales and services contracts with dealers in Austria, […]

Stellantis to restructure European dealer network in July 2023 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Bessemer, Playground, Root and Seraphim VCs will judge the TC Sessions: Space Pitch-off

November 24, 2022

Watching outstanding early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition is not only an essential part of TechCrunch conferences, but it’s also an attendee favorite. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Space Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to TC Sessions: Space on December 6 in Los Angeles. Let’s take […]

Bessemer, Playground, Root and Seraphim VCs will judge the TC Sessions: Space Pitch-off by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Automating the income gap

November 24, 2022

This is going to be another one of those “let’s ask ourselves some difficult questions” newsletter introductions, so if you’re in the U.S., I certainly won’t blame you for not giving Actuator your full attention until after the holiday. I generally approach these conversations through the same basic lens: a majority of technologies are neither […]

Automating the income gap by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

India’s AIIMS hit by outages after cyberattack

November 24, 2022

India’s leading public medical institute, All India Institute of Medical Services, or AIIMS, is experiencing outages following a cyberattack. The outages are affecting hundreds of patients and doctors accessing primary healthcare services, including patient admission, discharge and billing systems. Established in 1956, AIIMS holds thousands of medical undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is also one […]

India’s AIIMS hit by outages after cyberattack by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Netflix is working on ‘brand-new AAA PC game’ based on job listings

November 24, 2022

Netflix has put up more than a dozen job listings on its website for Netflix Games Studio’s Los Angeles office, as spotted by Mobilegamer.biz. These listings give us a few hints about the company’s plans for the new studio. In particular, Netflix is hiring a game director to work on “a brand-new AAA PC game”. […]

Netflix is working on ‘brand-new AAA PC game’ based on job listings by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Surveillance powers in UK’s Online Safety Bill are risk to E2EE, warns legal expert

November 24, 2022

Independent legal analysis of a controversial UK government proposal to regulate online speech under a safety-focused framework — aka the Online Safety Bill — says the draft bill contains some of the broadest mass surveillance powers over citizens every proposed in a Western democracy which it also warns pose a risk to the integrity of […]

Surveillance powers in UK’s Online Safety Bill are risk to E2EE, warns legal expert by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: climate responsibility, and AI training data shortages

November 24, 2022
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 US and China are pointing fingers at each other over climate change The UN climate conference wrapped up over the weekend after marathon negotiations that ran way over. The most notable outcome was the…

US authorities seize iSpoof, a call spoofing site that stole millions

November 24, 2022

An international police operation has dismantled an online spoofing service that allowed cybercriminals to impersonate trusted corporations to steal more than $120 million from victims. iSpoof, which now displays a message stating that it has been seized by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, offered “spoofing” services that enabled paying users to mask their […]

US authorities seize iSpoof, a call spoofing site that stole millions by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch