- July 2, 2024
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Evolve hack fallout continues, fintech M&A heats up and Plaid talks enterprise push
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the Evolve Bank hack, three notable acquisitions, Plaid’s enterprise customer growth and more. To get a
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Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging
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News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair
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Computing and shielding startups join forces to put AI-capable chips in space
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly outdated computing systems: consider that the Perseverance rover runs on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running on
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Industry Ventures raises a $900M fund for investing in small, early-stage VCs and their breakout startups
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
The venture fundraising trend in 2024 is fairly clear by now: Large, established VC firms are continuing to attract capital from limited partners, while smaller,
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Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Indian edtech giant Unacademy is laying off about 250 employees, the latest in a series of layoffs since the reopening of schools across the country
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Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few
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Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks
- By West virginia digital
- . July 2, 2024
Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including
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Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money
- By West virginia digital
- . July 1, 2024
A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As
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Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden
- By West virginia digital
- . July 1, 2024
Music, podcasts, audiobooks…emergency alerts? Spotify’s latest test has the streaming app venturing into new territory with a test of an emergency alerts system in its