HR tech startup Deel filed an amended complaint on Tuesday in its ongoing legal battle against its arch rival Rippling that offers surprising new details about its own corporate spying allegations. Rippling sued Deel in March after a Rippling employee testified in an Irish court that he was spying on his employer for the rival […]
Google places another fusion power bet on TAE Technologies
TAE Technologies raised $150 million from investors including Google, Chevron, and others.
The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie
A film that will portray the chaotic time at OpenAI, when co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was both fired and rehired within a span of just five days, is reportedly in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is titled “Artificial,” and it’s in development at Amazon MGM Studios. While details aren’t finalized, […]
Phone chipmaker Qualcomm fixes three zero-days exploited by hackers
Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.
Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year,’ founder says
The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.
Hinge CMO Jackie Jantos hopes to help make Gen Zers less lonely
Hinge CMO and President Jackie Jantos chats about how Hinge is marketing itself to a new generation in what has become a listless dating scene.
Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile
Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what’s shared on their user profiles. The company says it’s rolling out an update that will introduce a “Content and Activity” setting that allows users to decide which content from the subreddits they participate in will appear […]
Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The […]
Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)
Meta and Constellation Energy said the deal would help keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center running through 2047 without ratepayer support.
TikTok rolls out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to limit content you don’t want to see
TikTok is rolling out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to allow people to limit content they don’t want to see on their For You page, the company announced on Tuesday. While TikTok already allows users to use keyword filters to restrict specific content from appearing in their feeds, the new Smart Keyword filters will use AI […]