Flipkart blitzes into India’s 10-minute quick commerce battle
India’s fast-growing quick commerce market is getting a new deep-pocketed entrant: Walmart-owned Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm. Flipkart has started to roll out Flipkart Minutes, its quick commerce service, in parts of Bengaluru. The new service offers customers the ability to have a wide range of items, from grocery to
Read more38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list
The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreThis developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved?
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)?
Read moreAWS launches Mithra to identify and mitigate malicious domains across its massive system
When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job. Over the years Amazon has developed a number of strategies, from machine learning and monitoring tools to good old-fashioned phone calling to
Read moreBreakthrough AI and DevOps Innovations: Insights from Pioneering CTOs
You’re likely to read about the major innovations from the largest tech companies through their conferences and media coverage, while startups can get attention for their forward-looking innovations and the venture capital money funding them. However, many other breakthrough capabilities receive less notice. Marketers work hard to ensure that customers,
Read moreElon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman again
Image: The Verge Elon Musk has revived his complaint against OpenAI after dropping a previous lawsuit, again alleging that the ChatGPT maker and two of its founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — breached the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence technology to benefit humanity. The new lawsuit
Read moreTikTok Lite: EU closes addictive design case after TikTok commits to not bring back rewards mechanism
The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by accepting commitments from the social media giant to permanently withdraw the feature from the EU. The TikTok Lite “task and reward” mechanism, launched in France and Spain earlier this year, lets
Read moreAI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in a new funding round led by Blackrock. Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco, KDDI and Samsung Catalyst Fund also participated. The tranche, which brings Groq’s total raised
Read moreCrowdStrike says it’s not to blame for Delta’s days-long outage
Image: The Verge CrowdStrike refutes Delta Air Lines’ allegations that the cybersecurity firm is to blame for a dayslong flight disruption following last month’s catastrophic system outage, saying that the airline rejected repeated offers to help restore impacted systems. In an interview with CNBC last week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian
Read moreToo clever Monte Carlo
One way to find the volume of a sphere would be to imagine the sphere in a box, randomly select points in the box, and count how many of these points fall inside the sphere. In principle this would work in any dimension. The problem with naive Monte Carlo We
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