Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei to explore large-scale AI systems, raises a $580M Series B led by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest …
Salesforce will extend California's Silenced No More Act protections, which limit the scope of NDAs, to all US employees by the end of 2022 — Salesforce just became the latest tech giant to commit to limiting the scope of its non-disclosure agreements, freeing workers up to talk about instances …
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel dismisses Meta's metaverse ambitions as “ambiguous and hypothetical” and says the word “metaverse” is never uttered in Snap's offices — Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it
Microsoft says at least six Russia-aligned actors launched 237+ attacks against Ukraine from February 23 to April 8, including ~40 threatening civilian welfare — Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust — Today, we released a report detailing the relentless …
Experts speculate as to what Musk's takeover means for Twitter users' privacy; some worry that nothing will prevent Musk from accessing users' DMs — The social network's user data and more will soon be at the whims of the world's richest man. Who's worried?
Google launches privacy “nutrition labels” for Play Store apps; developers have until July 20 to disclose security practices and the data their apps collect — Google Play is today officially launching its own version of privacy-related “nutrition labels” for apps.
Sources: SoftBank's stricter investment criteria has led to tepid continued support for some cash-strapped startups it has backed including camera startup Light — SoftBank Group Corp.-backed Light is struggling to raise funds after the world's largest tech investor balked at putting …
Millions of dollars worth of NFTs were stolen after Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram and Discord were hacked and a malicious “mint” link was promoted — Quick Take — Bored Ape Yacht Club's official Instagram account was hacked. — A hacker stole 91 NFTs from users …
Robotaxi startup Pony.ai announces that it has received a license to operate 100 self-driving cars as traditional taxis in the Chinese city of Guangzhou — - Self-driving start-up Pony.ai announced Sunday it received a taxi license, the first of its kind in China.
Stockholm-based Planhat, which provides customer relationship management software to companies, raises a $50M Series A after seven years of bootstrapping — Previously bootstrapped Planhat raises one of the Nordics' largest Series A rounds of 2022 — Planhat ends bootstrapped journey with $50m Series A
Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing — Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator …
Mendel, which parses unstructured data from medical records and clinical literature to produce data for research, raises a $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT — Artificial intelligence startup Mendel has landed $40 million in a series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT for its real-world data platform.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
