Amazon Music allows users in Canada to chat and stream music with each other
Amazon Music now lets users in Canada create and join groups based on their favorite genres and artists.
The quest to keep organs alive outside the body
This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of human organs that can be preserved…
Sapphire Sport spins out, rebrands as 359 Capital with $300M AUM
The newly independent 359 Capital is half-way through investing from $181 million second fund.
Reimagining cybersecurity in the era of AI and quantum
AI and quantum technologies are dramatically reconfiguring how cybersecurity functions, redefining the speed and scale with which digital defenders and their adversaries can operate. The weaponization of AI tools for cyberattacks is already proving a worthy opponent to current defenses. From reconnaissance to ransomware, cybercriminals can automate attacks faster than ever before with AI. This…
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Remote driving startup Vay could grab up to $410M from Singapore’s Grab
Vay, a German startup offering remote-controlled rental cars, will get an investment of up to $410M from Singaporean super-app company Grab.
The Download: busting weather myths, and AI heart attack prediction
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. Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract…
Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware
Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficult to justify, given the broad range of victims — journalists, activists, and now political consultants — that have come forward.
6Sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1Mind
Amanda Kahlow has been quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1Mind.
Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off
Scribe Optimize is the startup’s next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful.
Don’t Let AI Fool You — Here’s Why Every Founder Still Needs to Learn to Code
While you don’t need an advanced degree in computer science to get your vision off the ground, I still think the basics are worth your time to learn.