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Cloaked is releasing a new call guard feature to let an AI-powered bot chat to scammers on a user’s behalf.
The tech giants have evidence that Chinese hackers are exploiting the new bug, but warned “multiple actors” are also hacking into affected SharePoint systems.
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Photo editing and sharing app VSCO is making its iOS camera app, Capture, available across the world, following a limited launch in June, when the app came to Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren’t planning to raise a Series A so soon for their startup Delve. But inbound interest started rolling in, and the startup recently closed a $32 million Series A at a $300 million valuation.
Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the US.
New York City-based Betaworks has closed its $66 million Fund III, which will focus on investing in early-stage AI companies. Betaworks has been investing in AI since at least 2016 and, through its investment program Camp, has backed companies such as Huggingface and Granola. Jordan Crook, a partner at the firm (and former TechCrunch employee), … Read more
All-electric truck fleet startup Nevoya has landed a fresh round of capital and plans to expand.
Owners of the Lucid Air sedan will be able to charge their luxury EVs at thousands of Tesla Supercharger stations in North America starting July 31. But there is a notable caveat: Lucid Air vehicles won’t be able to charge as fast as Tesla vehicles.
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.
Mixus’ AI agent platform not only keeps humans in the workflow, it also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack.
RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here’s the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund’s money.
DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection.
The company claims that its model achieved state of the art on specific metrics.
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s recently unveiled EXAONE platform. RNGD is optimized for running large language models (LLMs) and just last week, the Korean tech giant LG unveiled its next-generation hybrid AI model EXAONE 4.0. The collaboration … Read more
The Tesla Diner & Drive-In officially opened Monday and it seems Elon Musk is planning for more.
OpenAI and Google’s AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score.
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day.
Thousands of SharePoint servers could be vulnerable to hackers, according to cybersecurity firms.
72% of US teens have tried AI companions and 52% said they use the regularly.
Figma is allowing existing shareholders to sell even more stock than the company will in its IPO.
When users sign in or switch to their work Google account in Chrome, browsing related to their organization will be kept separate from their other browsing on the device.
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Hyper hopes to use the fresh capital to help scale across the country, integrate more into existing 911 systems, hire a head of engineering, and build its next product.
Grok’s unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and NSFW responses, but it’s Grok 4 that’s driven the app’s revenue of late.
A new app called Quip brings a smart, universal clipboard to Mac and iOS.
Rune Technologies raised $24 million to advance deployment of TyrOS, AI-enabled predictive software for military logistics that can run on the ground without internet connection.
Figma looks to offer more than 36 million shares with an expected price range between $25 and $28 a share.