AI dominates India’s Reliance annual general meeting
Reliance Industries, India’s largest company by market capitalization, is not sitting out the AI frenzy that has gripped the tech world. At the company’s annual general meeting Thursday, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani made over 50 mentions of AI, detailing plans to integrate the technology across Reliance’s vast business empire. Reliance
Read MoreMTN Group Announce New Board Appointments for Fintech & Bayobab
MTN Group has appointed four new non-executive directors to the boards of MTN Group Fintech and Bayobab. Herman Bosman will serve as independent chairman, while Nicky Newton-King and Nosipho Molope will also join as independent non-executive directors. “Building leading fintech and digital infrastructure platforms in Africa is central to our
Read MoreDurex India spilled customers’ private order data
Durex India has exposed customers' personal information, including full names, email and postal addresses, and order details. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreApple introduces AI-powered object removal in photos with the latest iOS update
Apple released the new developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 Sequoia. With this update, the company is launching new Apple Intelligence features, including the ability to remove objects from photos. The feature, called Clean Up, lets users identify and remove an object from the photo without
Read MoreNEA quietly reenters the secondaries market
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is getting back into the secondaries game. The Silicon Valley-based VC raised more than $468 million for NEA Secondary Opportunity Fund, according to an SEC filing. The fundraise closed on July 3, according to a source familiar with the matter, but hasn’t received much attention. The
Read MoreOne of Bolt’s proposed new backers, The London Fund, has been scrubbing its web page
One-click checkout tech company Bolt is still waiting to find out if shareholders will sign off on a proposed funding round with stipulations that founder Ryan Breslow would return as CEO. In the meantime, Axios’ Dan Primack did some digging around on The London Fund, a firm that is supposed to provide up to
Read MoreOpenAI reportedly in talks to close a new funding round at $100B+ valuation
Whatever size the tranche ends up being it'll be OpenAI's biggest outside infusion of capital since January 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreReddit back online after a software update took it down
Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco. When trying to access Reddit’s homepage, users were met with the message, “Server error. Try again later.” The company itself reported a “degraded status”
Read MoreOpenAI’s Converge 2 program has been shrouded in mystery
For months, a tech forum ran wild asking if the Converge 2 accelerator program actually happened. We finally found out. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreComparing Docker and Podman: A Guide to Container Management Tools
Docker vs. Podman: Understand key differences in container management, security enhancements, and Kubernetes integration to choose the best tool for your project. Continue reading Comparing Docker and Podman: A Guide to Container Management Tools on SitePoint.
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