Monthly Archives: June 2024

Check Point vs Palo Alto (2024): Which NGFW Is Better?

Both Check Point and Palo Alto have top-tier next-gen firewall solutions. That being said, Palo Alto’s security performance and ease of use give it a slight advantage.

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Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls

a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. The startup tested the calling feature ahead of … Continue reading

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TikTok to challenge Amazon Prime Day with its own sales event in July

TikTok is gearing up to challenge Amazon’s Prime Day event in the July. The social network announced on Thursday that TikTok Shop is holding a “Deals For You Days” sales event in the U.S. starting on July 9. The announcement … Continue reading

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Reliance Jio kicks off Indian telecom price hike

Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecoms operator, has initiated what analysts expect to be an industry-wide increase in tariffs in the world’s second largest wireless market, raising some of its plans by more than 20%.  Jio’s revised pricing structure, effective July … Continue reading

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SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son announced on Thursday that the Japanese tech giant has set up a joint venture in the country with Chicago-based health tech company Tempus. Together, the pair plan to develop AI-powered personalized medical services, by way … Continue reading

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AI pioneer Illia Polosukhin, one of Google’s ‘Transformer 8,’ wants to democratize artificial intelligence

Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin helped invent the transformer while at Google. He sat down with CNBC to tell how it happened and why AI should be open source.

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The Future of Search? 5 New Ways to Find Answers with AI Search

Wading through a long list of links may no longer be the only way we get search results—from Google or emerging AI-aided alternatives.

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Orby is building AI agents for the enterprise

Orby AI, is building a generative AI platform that attempts to automate a range of different business workflows, including workflows that involve data entry, documents processing and forms validation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This guy is playing Super Monkey Ball with an actual super monkey ball. Why can’t he become the next President?

Put a monkey in a ball (not a real one, monkey obviously, the ball should be fine) and make a video game where said monkey, called AiAI rolls around collecting bananas around fiendishly difficult courses and you have the premise … Continue reading

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WhisperGate Russian suspect indicted, US offers $10m bounty

A 22-year-old Russian citizen has been indicted by the US Department of Justice for allegedly attacking Ukrainian government computers and destroying critical infrastructure systems. If convicted, the man could face a maximum penalty of five years in prison. In the … Continue reading

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