Thursday, September 19, 2024

SpaceX disputes $633K FAA fine, citing ‘systematic challenges’ with agency

SpaceX sent a letter to top Congressional leaders on Wednesday denying allegations that it violated its launch licenses on two separate occasions last year, which has resulted in regulators seeking $633,009 in penalties from the company. Instead, the company asserts that the inability of the Federal Aviation Authority’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to […]

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Elon Musk’s reposts of Kamala Harris deepfakes may not fly under new California law

California’s newest law could land social media users who post, or repost, AI deepfakes that deceive voters about upcoming elections in legal trouble. Governor Gavin Newsom suggests that AB 2839, which went into effect immediately after he signed it on Tuesday, could be used to reel in Elon Musk’s retweets, among others who spread deceptive […]

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Virtuous, a fundraising CRM for nonprofits, raises $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity

I recently adopted a kitten from a local animal shelter. The modern, well-staffed three-story facility relies almost entirely on donations to operate. It’s just one of the 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. that need to continually solicit contributions from donors to maintain its services. But Virtuous founder and CEO Gabe Cooper says that many […]

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Apple Intelligence is now live in public beta. Here’s what it offers and how to enable it.

Starting Thursday, those who are enrolled in Apple’s public beta program will be able to experience the generative AI-fueled platform the company has been talking up since June.

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Cruise robotaxis return to the Bay Area nearly one year after pedestrian crash

Cruise is returning to the streets of Sunnyvale and Mountain View for the first time since it paused operations in the Bay Area after a robotaxi struck a pedestrian in October 2023. The company said Thursday that it will put “several” vehicles driven by humans in the two cities that will initially perform mapping. The […]

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Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager

Passkeys, the digital credentials that let you sign into apps and websites without entering a password, are getting easier to use for Chrome users. Starting today, you can save passkeys to Google’s password manager, Google Password Manager, built into Chrome on Windows, macOS, and Linux so that your passkeys automatically sync across all your signed-in […]

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AI notetaker Fathom raises $17M

In many meetings today, it sometimes feels like there are more AI notetaking and transcription bots than people. There are seemingly dozens of options to choose from these days, but one I’ve seen with increasing regularity is Fathom. The company was one of the earlier players when it launched in 2020. Fathom then raised a […]

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Harbor is building a better baby monitor and an army of night nannies

Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby monitor to suit his needs. He and his wife, Jen, had homed in on Nanit, a popular product renowned for its AI smarts and and […]

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This founder grew up in wine country — nows he’s built a platform for wine makers

Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day come up with an idea that may revolutionize the wine industry. But after a long career in finance, he’s returned to that heritage to launch a platform that could solve the […]

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Picus Security, founded by Turkish 3 mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyberattacks

For as long as coding has existed, we have had a plethora of methods — white-hat testers, software, and more — to validate that code works as it was intended. These days, all that has been kicked into high gear: the growing sophistication of security breaches has turned the process of software verification into a […]

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AI governance can’t be left to the vested interests

A final report by the UN’s high level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read. Named ‘Governing AI for Humanity’, the document underlines the contradictory challenges of making any kind of governance stick on such a fast developing, massively invested and heavily hyped technology. On the one hand, the report […]

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Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting

With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting? Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today’s weather prediction and […]

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