Author Archives: Techme101

Astera Labs goes public, and the Inflection-Microsoft AI saga continues

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, focused on startup and venture capital news that matters. Today we have a … Continue reading

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Data center provider Equinix ‘selling an AI pipe dream,’ Hindenburg Research says in short report

Hindenburg Research targeted data-center REIT Equinix in its latest short report, accusing the company of accounting tricks to unlock executive stock grants.

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India will fact-check online posts about government matters

In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media even as tech giants expressed grave concerns about it last year. The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Wednesday wrote in a … Continue reading

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5 Best AI CRM Software for 2024

Looking to find the best AI CRM software? Explore top options, features and benefits to streamline your customer relationship management processes effectively.

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ServiceNow is developing AI through mix of building, buying and partnering

Every enterprise software company out there is working to bring more workflow automation and AI to the platform. ServiceNow has been on this journey for some time now, and given the kind of data it collects via interactions on its … Continue reading

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Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as Wall Street debut nears

Reddit is inviting some users to participate in its IPO this week, but moderators told CNBC that they’re not taking the company up on its offer.

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Fraud risk for Vans customers after data breach

The footwear firm’s parent company was hacked and customers’ personal information stolen.

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Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini

In a never-ending saga between Google and France’s competition authority over copyright protections for news snippets, the Autorité de la Concurrence announced a €250 million fine against the tech giant Wednesday (around $270 million at today’s exchange rate). According to … Continue reading

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OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from programming to … Continue reading

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Saudi Arabia reportedly in talks with VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz to create mammoth $40 billion AI fund

Saudi Arabia’s PIF has been on a buying spree as it seeks to diversify the kingdom’s revenues away from oil.

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