Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Construction may well prove to be the next major focus for robotics investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Traditionally, being a hardcore movie fan means collecting physical memorabilia like autographed posters to show dedication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, yet we’re still seeing the reverberations of that deal on other social platforms, including the new ones that have cropped up since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. A new “safety advisory group” will sit above the technical teams and make recommendations to leadership, and the board has been granted veto power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google said today it will pay $700 million — $630 million to U.S. consumers and $70 to a fund used by U.S. states — in a settlement over Play Store reached in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is picking up a new investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Select Waymo One riders can now get picked up or dropped off by the company’s robotaxis curbside at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16-and-a-half years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered Spider gang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When it comes to spurring the development of cutting-edge technologies, the Chinese government is rather pragmatic in its policymaking process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Verve Motion, a startup building a robotic “exosuit” designed to help workers complete physically demanding tasks in factories and other like environments, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After years of aggressive expansion at home, China’s autonomous vehicle upstarts are now setting their gaze on overseas markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hasbro is laying off 1,100 employees, according to an SEC filing. The company behind franchises like Dungeons & Dragons and Transformers, Hasbro already laid off 800 employees in January. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Semiconductors have in recent years become a focal point in the U.S.’s efforts to impede China’s technological advancement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ByteDance’s TikTok will take a 75.01% controlling stake in a joint venture entity formed in partnership with GoTo’s e-commerce unit Tokopedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As European Union lawmakers clock up 20+ hours of negotiating time in a marathon attempt to reach agreement on how to regulate artificial intelligence a preliminary accord on how to handle one sticky element. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Microsoft Bing is getting a new “Deep Search” feature powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans to turn the company formerly known as Twitter, now called X, into an “everything app” that includes its own payments system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta has silently updated its support pages to indicate that the company won’t let users on Instagram message their Facebook contacts anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cruise keeps getting kicked while it’s down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TikTok and Ticketmaster are expanding their partnership into 20 new countries after initially launching it in the United States back in August 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under European Union data protection rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smartphone sales will mount a comeback starting in 2024, defying growing warnings of a prolonged slump across the mobile sector, according to separate projections by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reviewed by TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
