AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI leaders, will receive $100 million in funding from one of the biggest mobile carriers in South Korea, SK Telecom (SKT), the telco company announced on Sunday. The funding news comes three months after Anthropic raised $450 million in its Series C funding round
Read moreIndia, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings
The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. While wrist-worn wearables are still wildly popular in India, a pair of domestic manufacturers are banking on consumers who are meticulous about health and sleep tracking but are less interested in the form factor. BoAt and Noise
Read moreThe space industry is starting a green revolution
Martin Coates Contributor Martin Coates is the CEO of U.K.-based spaceflight company Orbex and is an engineering and technology management veteran with more than 30 years’ experience. He is also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Rocket launches are nothing short of
Read moreStudent opportunities abound at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Here’s a reminder for students or recent grads. You’re the startup world’s future generation, and we’re investing in you. How? By offering passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 (September 19–21 in San Francisco) at a super-sweet discount. A student pass costs $195 compared to full general admission of $850. What are
Read moreBugs in transportation app Moovit gave hackers free rides
Hackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal information, according to a security researcher. Omer Attias, a security researcher at SafeBreach, said he found three vulnerabilities in the Moovit app, which allowed him to collect
Read moreCruise and Waymo score a win and a surprising deal between electric aircraft rivals
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. All eyes were on San Francisco this week as critics and supporters of deploying self-driving cars on public roads awaited a vote from the
Read moreMark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘time to move on’ from the Elon Musk fight
Image: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post today that “it’s time to move on” from Elon Musk’s cage fight antics. “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious,” he wrote, adding that the refusal of the X (formerly Twitter) owner to confirm a date and his
Read moreSure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?
Companies of all stripes have begun embracing generative AI as a way to increase productivity and possibly even replace some workers. But the base technology has been around for decades. Over the last five to 10 years, big enterprise software companies have been building AI into their platforms without the
Read moreGunnar Hellekson, GM and VP at Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Mike McGrath VP of Core Platforms Engineering at Red Hat on Hashtag Trending, Weekend Edition
About 20 years ago, I started my own technology consulting company. We mostly did strategic consulting in IT – architecture, strategy, IT effectiveness, projects rescues and Lean Six Sigma consulting. Those sorts of things. But at the same time I was fascinated with open source – and I’ve mentioned this
Read moreGoogle Doodle Celebrates the Legacy of Fatima Meer
Google Doodle celebrates Durban born, South African, Fatima Meer with a Doodle. Fatima was born on 12 August 1928. She was the 2nd of 9 children and obtained a Bachelors and a Masters degree in sociology from the Universities of Witwatersrand and Natal. Throughout her life she authored over 40
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