Venture funding into Europe is heading for a flat year, but this may obfuscate the fact that European AI startups are thriving. According to VC firm Balderton Capital and Dealroom, 25% of VC funding into the region β approximately $13.7 billion β went to AI startups this year, compared to 15% four years ago, resulting [β¦]
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Coralogix, the well-funded observability platform, on Monday announced that it has acquired Aporia, a startup that focuses on giving businesses tools to observe and secure their AI workloads, as well as set guardrails for them to avoid hallucinations or unintended disclosures. As part of this acquisition, Coralogix will launch a dedicated AI research center, Coralogix [β¦]
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According to the calendar, weβre a mere weeks out from CES β the perfect gift for your gadget blogger who has everything. The massive consumer electronics and automotive event kicks off in Las Vegas on January 7. TechCrunch is returning to the future home of the Oakland Athletics for the event, and β as always [β¦]
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So far in life, I havenβt needed be a βmesh guy.β A well chosen and carefully placed Wi-Fi router has worked fine in our modest abodes, but one particular situation has resisted simple solutions until Eero put out a device in November seemingly made exactly for the purpose. This wonβt be a thorough examination of [β¦]
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Instagram is testing a way for you to see content from friends that you might have missed. The social network has started displaying unseen Story Highlights from a userβs mutual followers at the end of the Stories tray, which is the area at the top of your feed where you see Stories from your friends. [β¦]
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The first Juniper fund is $10.6 million and is oversubscribed.
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One of the most widely used techniques to make AI models more efficient, quantization, has limits β and the industry could be fast approaching them. In the context of AI, quantization refers to lowering the number of bits β the smallest units a computer can process β needed to represent information. Consider this analogy: When [β¦]
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Days after web hosting provider WP Engine won a preliminary injunction against WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and rival hosting provider Automattic, Mullenweg announced that WordPress.org is taking a holiday break. WordPress.com β a site that provides access to WordPress plug-ins, themes, and other artifacts to the community β will take a break from providing free [β¦]
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The company's co-founder confirmed the shutdown in a LinkedIn post.
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Japanese car giants Honda and Nissan are working out the details of a major merger that could create the worldβs third-largest automaker, as the companies look to survive in an industry faced with uncertainty. The Tesla-led shift toward electric vehicles, and Chinaβs increased importance in the automotive market, have companies like Honda and Nissan feeling [β¦]
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Yet another major investment is going down in the travel sector, underscoring its ongoing rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic. Prosus, the tech conglomerate controlled by Naspers, is paying $1.7 billion to acquire Despegar, one of the biggest online travel agencies in Latin America, to scale up its operations in the region. Despegarβs board of directors [β¦]
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Monday that the company is now profitable. Durov said the chat appβs total revenue surpassed $1 billion in 2024. The company, which launched its premium subscription service in 2022, now has 12 million paid users. Durov also said that the app is finishing the year with more than $500 million [β¦]
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A US judge ruled that the Israeli spyware maker breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with Pegasus
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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now.
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X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service, Premium+, by 37.5% to $22 a month, marking the largest price increase since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022. The price hike will first affect U.S. users, going up from $16, effective December 21, according to a statement. Annual subscriptions have also climbed to $229 [β¦]
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President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump said in a statement that Krishnan will βhelp shape and coordinate AI policy across government, working with the [β¦]
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Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to a report in the Financial Times. The goal, the FT says, is to challenge the dominance of βprimeβ defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, [β¦]
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With a U.S. TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that heβd like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. βWeβre going to have to start thinking because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, [β¦]
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OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it has released. These improvements appear to have come from scaling test-time compute, something we wrote about last month, but OpenAI also says it used a new safety paradigm to [β¦]
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