Instacart suffers steepest drop on record after disappointing revenue, lackluster forecast

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Instacart shares plummeted 12%, their worst day on record, after missing on revenue and issuing lackluster guidance.

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Avride’s sidewalk delivery bots land in Japan

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Avride sidewalk bots will start delivering restaurant orders and groceries in central Tokyo this week through a partnership with e-commerce giant Rakuten, the latest commercial expansion by the Yandex spinout into Northeast Asia. The Austin-based autonomous vehicle startup is one of four projects under Nebius Group, a Netherlands-based company formerly called Yandex NV that sold […]
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Obvious Ventures, co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, plans to raise $400 million fund

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Obvious Ventures plans to raise $400 million for its latest fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

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US intelligence head ‘not told’ about UK’s secret Apple data demand

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Tulsi Gabbard said she was seeking further information from the FBI and other US agencies.

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SonicWall Report: “Threat Actors are Moving at Unprecedented Speeds”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

SonicWall’s 2025 Annual Threat Report noted the U.S. healthcare sector and Latin America were targeted by cybercriminals.

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Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short. The generative AI models receiving the most attention now can be broadly divided into two types: […]
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Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.

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Hacked crypto exchange Bybit offers $140 million bounty to trace stolen funds

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Bybit has already paid more than $4 million to bounty hunters who helped trace and freeze some of the stolen funds.
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ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

ElevenLabs, an AI startup that just raised a $180 million mega funding round, has been primarily known for its audio generation prowess. The company took a step in another technological direction by launching its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe. The startup, valued at $3.3 billion, has aided many other companies in providing speech-to-text services […]
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Nvidia reports fourth-quarter earnings after the bell

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia’s earnings report on Wednesday will put the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable years from a large company ever.

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