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Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. In a new filing, Fizz is accusing investor Jerry Lu, who is with venture capital firm Maveron, of meeting with Fizz...
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. SK Hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant, said Friday it has raised $26.5 billion (KRW 40 trillion) in its U.S. market debut. SK Hynix sold 177.9 million American depositary shares (ADRs) at $149...
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
A new app called HyperTexting is making it as easy to surf the web as it is to scroll through a social media feed, like Facebook or X. The app, newly available for iOS, also aims to make updating your own personal website as simple as sending a text message. This...
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company successfully launched a Long March orbital rocket and landed the booster on a seagoing recovery vessel, making it the second country to achieve the feat. The demonstration on Friday shows that China’s Aerospace Science and Technology...
Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says
Disney+ is considering making some of its streaming library available to watch for free, according to a report from Business Insider. Disney’s chief product and technology officer Adam Smith discussed the possibility of offering free-tier content during a town hall on...
Google’s TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it’s never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature...
Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone
When Lydia Peabody saw her friend pull out a flip phone at a party last year, she burst out laughing. “I was like, ‘Girl, what are you doing with that thing? That has to be a joke!’” Peabody told TechCrunch. But it wasn’t just a prop — her friend was participating in...
Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
A number of companies, betting on various architectural approaches, are trying to build the first commercially viable quantum computer capable of significantly outperforming current systems. Oratomic, which entered the race earlier this year with the goal of...
Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
As Netflix searches for new ways to keep viewers engaged amid signs of slowing engagement, the streaming giant appears to be exploring yet another avenue: always-on live TV channels. According to The Wall Street Journal, Netflix is considering launching live channels...
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale
India’s AI model output has been slow compared to the U.S., Europe, and China. Only a few startups are releasing models, and most of them are large language models or voice models. To encourage more development, the government launched the India AI Mission, a roughly...
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but the industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown growing interest in startups that promise faster automation without the usual tradeoffs. That’s the bet behind Theker, an AI...
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world
Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. The new funds came from Bezos himself, as well as from JPMorgan Chase,...
SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever
For once, SpaceX is ahead of schedule: Elon Musk’s space and AI conglomerate officially confirmed that it has raised $75 billion from the sale of its shares to its underwriters, who are set to begin marketing the company on the Nasdaq stock exchange Friday. SpaceX...
Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies
Oracle warned its corporate customers that there is a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software, which is used by large companies to manage payroll and human resources, a day after a cybercrime group took credit for abusing the flaw as part of a...
SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift
SpaceX makes its public debut on Friday and some investors who backed the company through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) still don’t know how many shares they’re entitled to or whether they’ll get any shares at all. Investing through SPVs, where multiple parties pool...
Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features
Social network Bluesky launched support for group chats on Thursday, another feature designed to make the app more competitive with its larger competitor, X. While Elon Musk-owned X recently doubled down on chats with the launch of a stand-alone XChat app, Bluesky is...
Meta’s Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version
Meta on Wednesday previewed upcoming additions to its video-editing app Edits at an invite-only creator event in L.A., showing off features like a new AI assistant and a desktop version of the previously mobile-only app. The company also announced other new tools will...
Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights
Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However,...
Why AI that works in the lab often fails in production — and what actually fixes it
Presented by Capital One Enterprises aren’t struggling to experiment with AI; they’re struggling to make it work in the real world. Moving from promising prototypes to reliable, production-scale systems is where most efforts stall.In my role within Capital One’s AI...
Coinbase debuts AI agent that can trade and pay for premium research
As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace. Days after trading platform Robinhood introduced agents that can trade for...
Coinbase’s new tool can help agents trade and pay for premium research
As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace. Days after trading platform Robinhood introduced agents that can trade for...
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Unlike the perception, faxing is still prevalent in professional area, but unfortunately, it has been wrongly termed as an outdated one. However, the truth is way different. Your business needs fax machines and that’s exactly the reason, why different businesses are...
Easy Steps to Help You Make Windows 10 Look And Feel like Windows 7
Windows 7 is the most popular and widely used version of Windows. Even after Microsoft released windows 8/8.1 and 10, many people didn’t want to upgrade to the latest version because they were already used to Windows 7. Getting used to new interfaces and layouts takes...
Recent Rumours of Bitcoin’s Death Are Exaggerated
Last week's events in the world of Bitcoin demonstrated that the fledgling currency still has further to go before it's future is assured. One of Bitcoin's core developers quit last week, blogging that he believes that as an experiment "Bitcoin has failed". While in...
The History of the Phone
The history of the phone from Alexander Graham Bell to the digital phone technology of today. Follow the visual timeline below:
Via: Business Phone Service Phone.com