Some Prominent Silicon Valley Investors Shift to the Right

Marc Andreessen, Chamath Palihapitiya and several other tech venture capitalists are increasingly criticizing President Biden and making their disaffection known in an election year.

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TikTok Moves to Limit Russian and Chinese Media’s Reach in Big Election Year

The platform will keep state-affiliated media accounts out of users’ feeds if they “attempt to reach communities outside their home country on current global events and affairs.”

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Arc Search’s new Call Arc feature lets you ask questions by ‘making a phone call’

Call Arc can help answer immediate and small questions, according to the company. 
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6 Best Contact Center CRM for 2024

Looking for the best contact center CRM? Explore the top 6 options, compare features, pricing and pros and cons to find the perfect fit for your business.

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Learn How to Code From Novice-Friendly Courses for Just $40 Through 5/31

Learning to code can be so easy with the classes in this bundle; most were designed for novices, and others will take you further when you’re ready.

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Paris transit passes now available in iPhone’s Wallet app

After multiple delays, Apple and the Paris area transportation authority rolled out support for Paris transit passes in Apple Wallet. It means that people can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch as a Navigo pass to ride the metro, train, tram or bus. This is important news for Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) — the transportation […]
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Redwood Materials is partnering with Ultium Cells to recycle GM’s EV battery scrap

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles.  The company announced Thursday that it’s working with Ultium Cells, the joint battery manufacturing venture between GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle cathode, anode and cell scrap from […]
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Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form

Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts.
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ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure

ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real changes to the rest of the computing system.
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Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops

On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than half a million hackers to find and fix security vulnerabilities and other operational loopholes in […]
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