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Robot dogs wielding flamethrowers -- it sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie, but a Cleveland-based company says they're up for sale to customers in the U.S.
Microsoft laid out $1.5 billion for a stake in UAE-based G42 in a deal that gave the tech giant a seat on the AI company’s board.
The fundraising was completed in two tranches between 2022 and 2023, with LongLing Capital leading the angel round, while Spartan Group and SevenX Ventures led the Series A round.
HAMMOND — S&W Wholesale Foods, a Hammond-based food supplier, announced a $21 million investment into a new facility in Tangipahoa Parish on Thursday.S&W will acquire a new Hammond facility that will expand the company's operations across the Gulf Coast. The project will retain more than 100 local jobs and create around 60 new construction jobs for renovations, including a roof replacement and refitting to accommodate office space. The expansion will be done by the end of the year.The...
Apple has reportedly acquired France-based AI startup Datakalab, specializing in AI and computer vision technology. It is expected to help Apple bolster the AI features it is readying for iOS 18.
Social video platform Triller will be acquired by a Hong Kong financial services company as the Los Angeles-based firm looks to bulk itself up to counter TikTok's dominance. The agreement has already been approved by the boards of Triller and AGBA Group Holding Ltd., though it still needs regulatory and shareholder approval, according to a statement from the companies. The deal is expected to close in late May, after which Triller will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of AGBA, which is publicly...
Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based health care conglomerate, is warning millions of customers that one of its divisions may have exposed their names, symptom searches and other data to major tech companies. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. disclosed the data breach to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 12. TechCrunch first reported the news. Kaiser told SFGATE in a statement on Thursday, “certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile...
The Federal Communications Commission fined four US wireless carriers close to $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers' location data.AT&T was fined over $57 million, and Verizon was fined almost $47 million. T-Mobile and Sprint, which merged since the investigation began, have been fined $92 million collectively, the FCC said on Monday."Our communications providers have access to some of the most sensitive information about us," FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in the...
PARK CITY, Utah, April 17, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Sundance Institute on Wednesday announced it has begun a process that will allow it to consider other U.S. locations for the festival. On Tuesday, it opened a Request for Information (RFI), to be followed May 1 by a request for proposals (RFP) “to explore viable locations […] The post Sundance moving? Park City-based film festival to consider new U.S. locations first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
"This AI garbage is all over social media — especially Facebook — and thousands of people eat it up thinking it's real," a Reddit user commented.
Spotify posted a "quarterly high" operating income of €168 million ($182.41m) Source