Indonesia will soon become the latest country to pass laws restricting children from accessing social media, following in the footsteps of Australia and its neighbor Malaysia. However, unlike Australia, which has banned users under 16 from social media altogether, Indonesia…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that a cyberattack stole the personal and health information of more than 3.4 million people. The company failed to detect the breach for almost a year. TriZetto, owned by the multinational conglomerate Cognizant, serves…
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to offer their chatbots on WhatsApp to users in Brazil for a fee. This move comes just one day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe. Earlier this week,…
The Indian state of Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, plans to ban children under 16 from using social media. This decision joins a growing global movement that aims to curb young people’s access to online platforms, despite…
Amid enduring investor appetite for all things quantum, another European company in the space is graduating from the private markets. Just two weeks after Finnish quantum unicorn IQM said it was going public via a merger with a special purpose…
City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced a $13 million Series A funding round on Friday. The investment was led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched…
AI video-generation startup Luma launched Luma Agents on Thursday. This new platform is designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. The agents are powered by Luma’s Unified Intelligence family of models, which are built on…
Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Department of Defense’s decision to label the AI firm a supply-chain risk in court, a designation he has called legally unsound. The statement comes a few hours after the DOD…
Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, a designation he has called legally unsound. The statement comes a few hours after the Department…
A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time-consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executives of potential targets and modeling financial outcomes, these groups spend millions of dollars on…
