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A new venture capital supergroup is forming

Startups are not shying away from big projects. That’s my takeaway from news that The Browser Company’s Arc browser is now generally available for Windows users, just as Island raised a massive grip of capital for its enterprise-focused browser tool. … Continue reading

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Meta and Google Are Betting on AI Voice Assistants. Will They Take Off?

Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.

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Binance Founder Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, had pleaded guilty to a money-laundering violation.

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Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024

The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.

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Tesla Fires Charger Team Amid Hundreds of Layoffs

The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.

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Learn Cybersecurity Skills From Scratch for Just $40

Save on tech services or switch to a lucrative new tech career by training at your own pace to develop high-demand cybersecurity skills.

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CMU is developing low-flying drones to map wildfires

A harsh truth: as bad as North American wildfires have grown over the past several years, things are only going to get worse. Climate change continues to accelerate the issue, putting people, property, nature and animals at risk. Drones have … Continue reading

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A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.

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Adobe Adds Firefly and AI Watermarking to Bug Bounty Program

Researchers can earn up to $10,000 for critical vulnerabilities in the generative AI products.

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Belgium’s Aikido lands $17M Series A for its ‘no BS’ security platform aimed at developers

Developers have a problem. It used to be the case that only large enterprises needed to worry themselves with security, but today, every startup is capable of holding huge amounts of customer data. That means developers across the board have … Continue reading

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