Google taps gen-AI to help users in India search through government welfare schemes
Google announced a bunch of generative AI-focused tools in India at its Google for India event. The features include visual results like images and videos and information on government schemes. Google said today that in the coming weeks, users will be able to get summaries of more than 100 government-led
Read moreFrench VC firm Founders Future just acquired an equity crowdfunding platform, Sowefund
Here’s an interesting move. Founders Future, a well-known VC firm in the French tech ecosystem, acquired an equity crowdfunding marketplace called Sowefund. While terms of the deal remain undisclosed, Sowefund has been profitable since 2022 with around 20 employees. Following this move, Founders Future now has two separate yet complementary
Read moreMapleSEC: How to stop CSOs from saying, ‘Goodbye’
Increasing cyber attacks and the pressures COVID put on organizations is making chief security officers and their equivalents think of the unthinkable: Quitting. In fact, Gartner believes by 2025/26, almost half of current CSOs will have left their job for another post, and of them, 25 per cent will leave
Read moreGM, Cruise and Honda to launch robotaxi service in Japan
General Motors, self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and Honda plan to launch a robotaxi service in Japan under a new joint venture, the three companies announced today. The companies intend to launch the service with the custom-built Cruise Origin vehicles in central Tokyo in early 2026. The service will start with
Read moreMapleSEC: Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst launches Cyber Talent Management Playbook to address skills shortage
At MapleSEC 2023, Rushmi Hasham and Juliana Scharrer, the director and associate director of workforce training at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, shared their work leading the “cyber talent transformation initiative.” This initiative, supported by the Future Skills Centre, allows the Catalyst to recruit, train and connect diverse Canadian talent to
Read moreMapleSEC: ‘Quiet hiring’ key to helping reduce cybersecurity staffing crisis
A single infographic released recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revealed the extent of the current cybersecurity staffing crisis. One stat that rang alarm bells everywhere was this: At a time when there is acute demand from corporate boards to increase cybersecurity headcounts, the worldwide shortage
Read moreElon Musk answers Tesla pricing question with anti work-from-home rant
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images On Tesla’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said people who work from home take advantage of the people who cannot work from home and are “detached from reality.” In the middle of talking about rising interest rates and their effect
Read moreElon Musk warns Cybertruck won’t be profitable until 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a warning Wednesday about the soon-to-be delivered Cybertruck that might sound familiar to those who closely followed the company’s Model 3 “production hell” era. The gist? Scaling production of a vehicle like the Cybertruck is hard and it’s going to take awhile before it’s profitable.
Read moreTrans healthcare startup Plume lays off dozens of workers
Plume, a startup founded to offer essential online healthcare services to trans people across the U.S., laid off more than two dozen workers in October, several sources close to the company told TechCrunch. Transphobia is rife within the healthcare industry; it’s one reason why transgender patients struggle to access basic
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