US sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission

Image: The Verge The Department of Justice is suing TikTok for allegedly letting kids under 13 make accounts without their parents’ permission and collecting “extensive data” on them, in violation of US child privacy law. The DOJ claims that TikTok knowingly let kids onto its platform through its “Kids Mode,” collected their information, and failed … Read more

As Trump Suggests Crypto as a Fix to U.S. Debt, Harris Camp Highlights His Remarks

Former President Donald Trump heaped more praise on the “very, very smart people” of the crypto industry in an interview broadcast on Friday, suggesting that the U.S. embracing Bitcoin {{BTC}} could aid in addressing the $35 trillion U.S. national debt. Though Vice President Kamala Harris, his presumptive Democratic opponent in the presidential race, hasn’t yet … Read more

Trump and Zuck relationship status: complicated

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Scott Olson, Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has expressed a newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg, after years of railing against him. In an interview with Fox that aired on Friday, Trump said Mark Zuckerberg recently called him “to apologize” after Meta’s AI assistant falsely said the … Read more

Cepsa Química improves the efficiency and accuracy of product stewardship using Amazon Bedrock

This is a guest post co-written with Vicente Cruz Mínguez, Head of Data and Advanced Analytics at Cepsa Química, and Marcos Fernández Díaz, Senior Data Scientist at Keepler. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a transformative force, poised to disrupt and reshape businesses of all sizes and across industries. Generative AI empowers organizations … Read more

Acquiring AI talent wholesale

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups.  This week we are looking at acquisitions of small startups, two new unicorns, wearable AI devices, and VCs who are supporting Kamala Harris. Let’s get into it. Most interesting startup stories from the week With the IPO … Read more

GraphStorm 0.3: Scalable, multi-task learning on graphs with user-friendly APIs

GraphStorm is a low-code enterprise graph machine learning (GML) framework to build, train, and deploy graph ML solutions on complex enterprise-scale graphs in days instead of months. With GraphStorm, you can build solutions that directly take into account the structure of relationships or interactions between billions of entities, which are inherently embedded in most real-world … Read more