China records big rise in bringing patents from universities, research centers to market Source link

Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense, is back in the spotlight over the government’s ongoing battle with Anthropic, and a newly released podcast interview offers one of the most detailed looks yet into his thinking on that dispute — as well as an unguarded settling of old scores from his Uber days. …

Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues to draw investor interest for its 10-minute fresh food delivery service. The Series B round, led by Hara Global and Bain Capital Ventures, also saw participation from Accel, Stride Ventures, and Alteria Capital. It values Swish at $139 million post-money, …

Jordan, Qatar foreign ministers discuss ending regional escalation Source link

Few rivalries in the startup ecosystem are as intense (and occasionally bitter) as the race between Polymarket and Kalshi for dominance in the rapidly growing prediction market arena. Despite their fierce competition, the CEOs of both companies are investing in 5(c) Capital, a new prediction market-focused VC firm launched by former Kalshi employees, Fortune and Bloomberg reported. 5(c) Capital, a …

The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk. The rule states that new foreign-made product models for network routers will land on the Covered List, a set of communications equipment seen as having an unacceptable risk to national security. Previously purchased routers can still be used and …

London’s Air Street Capital has raised a $232 million Fund III with eyes set on backing early-stage AI companies across Europe and North America, the firm announced Monday.  Check sizes will range from $500,000 to $15 million, with select growth investments reaching up to $25 million. Led by Nathan Beniach, this raise makes Air Street one of Europe’s largest solo …

Apple Maps has never been considered the crème de la crème of navigation apps (that honor obviously goes to Google Maps) and now, if reports are correct, its user experience is about to get ads, Bloomberg reports. Apple is gearing up to introduce the change later this year, with an official announcement about it as soon as this month, sources …

Ali Farhadi speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, GeekWire has learned. Farhadi, Hanna Hajishirzi, and Ranjay Krishna are expected …

Colombian military plane crashes near Ecuador border, 48 survive Source link

Anthropic announced today that its Claude Code and Claude Cowork tools are being updated to accomplish tasks using your computer. The latest update will see these AI resources become capable of opening files, using the browser and running dev tools. When enabled, the Claude AI chatbot will first prioritize connectors to supported services such as the Google workplace suite or …

Abdullah bin Zayed holds phone calls with foreign ministers to discuss regional developments Source link

Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now, someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword and published it on the code sharing site GitHub. Researchers are warning that this will allow any hacker to easily use the tools to target iPhone users running older versions of Apple’s …

U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline has raised another $200 million, adding to a recent funding round originally announced in January. “Things have moved a little faster than we expected,” founder and CEO Keller Cliffton said in a video message posted on X that provided a broader update on the company. The additional funds, which included participation from …

In a new viral video, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead the chatbots themselves to become a mirror of users’ own beliefs rather than a tool for discovery. We’ve seen this problem before …