Monthly Archives: June 2024

President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill

President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current approach to banks and crypto. Specifically, the resolution targeted the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, which presents guidance around how … Continue reading

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Industries may be ready for humanoid robots, but are the robots ready for them?

How large a role humanoids will play in that ecosystem is, perhaps, the biggest question on everyone’s mind at the moment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Majority of UK MPs have had their data leaked to the dark web

More than two-thirds of British politicians have had their data leaked to the dark web, according to the latest data. 68% of British politicians currently sitting in the House of Commons. That includes some who are supposed to be in … Continue reading

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VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market

VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most aren’t able to get into such deals at all. Yet, small, unknown investors, including family … Continue reading

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Deal Dive: How (Re)vive grew 10x last year by helping retailers recycle and sell returned items

The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majority, end up in the trash. An estimated 9.5 billion pounds of returns ended up in landfills in 2022 alone, … Continue reading

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You can no longer use Tumblr’s tipping feature 

Tumblr officially shut down “Tips,” an opt-in feature where creators could receive one-time payments from their followers.  As of today, the tipping icon has automatically disappeared from all posts and blogs with the feature enabled. Creators that use the feature … Continue reading

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Name for Meta’s more affordable VR headset leaked

The name of Meta’s next – and rumoured to be more affordable – virtual reality Quest headset has seemingly been leaked. Meta’s upcoming mixed reality headset will apparently be called the Quest 3S. The news comes via a Quest Store … Continue reading

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AI training data has a price tag that only Big Tech can afford

Generative AI improvements are increasingly being made through data curation and collection — not architectural — improvements. Big Tech has an advantage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Software stocks got pummeled this week after a cluster of troubling earnings reports

Weak guidance was a major theme in software company earnings reports this week, leading investors to rush for the exits.

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This Week in AI: Can we (and could we ever) trust OpenAI?

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we … Continue reading

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