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Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services to managed service providers, raised a $31M Series B led by Meritech Capital (Stephen Pastis/Tampa Bay Business Journal)

Stephen Pastis / Tampa Bay Business Journal: Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services to managed service providers, raised a $31M Series B led by Meritech Capital — Rewst, a Tampa-based automation platform for managed service providers, has raised $31 million in a Series B funding round, its latest raise since 2022.

Tesla’s upgraded 2024 Model 3 is now available in the US

Tesla Model 3 (2024) | Image: Tesla An updated version of Tesla’s Model 3 sedan that was released in markets across Europe, the Middle East, and China last fall is now available in North America. Reportedly codenamed “Highland” while it was in development, it introduces several noticeable tweaks to Tesla’s mainstream electric sedan. From the

How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not

So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have an associated smartphone app, cloud service and/or subscription to enable you to control it from the beach during your vacation, or just set up automation

Google may be planning to ship a rare upgrade to Tensor-powered Pixel phones

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google may be planning to release a new major kernel upgrade for all Tensor-powered Pixel phones. The upgrade could improve performance and improve long-term support in the future. The upcoming Pixel 9 series is also expected to get the upgrade. Google may be planning to roll out a major

Bank of America values Jio Platforms at $107B, up 64.6% from $65B in 2020 when the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate raised $20B+ from Meta and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bank of America values Jio Platforms at $107B, up 64.6% from $65B in 2020 when the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate raised $20B+ from Meta and others — Bank of America has pinned a $107 billion valuation tag on Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, valuing the Indian telecoms …

Sources: Chinese companies are repurposing Nvidia’s gaming chips for AI to counter US’ sanctions; RTX 4090 is one of the most popular models to be repurposed (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: Chinese companies are repurposing Nvidia’s gaming chips for AI to counter US’ sanctions; RTX 4090 is one of the most popular models to be repurposed — US export controls force developers to strip components from PC graphics cards — Chinese companies are resorting to chips repurposed …

TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B — – Chipmaker’s holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound

Instagram will automatically put teens on most restrictive content settings

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Instagram and Facebook are putting more content restrictions in place for teenagers. The platforms will now automatically place teens under its most restrictive content control settings. Content on Feeds, Explore section, Posts, and Stories will be affected. Meta is taking steps to make its platforms more age-appropriate for teenagers.

Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs — Intel Corp. is making an ambitious play for the automotive sector with the launch of specialist versions of its newest, artificial intelligence-enabled chips.

Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis — Chief of Google’s AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships

Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman — They are building up protections and share classes after watching OpenAI saga play out — There’s a new task on the 2024 to-do list for founders …

The humble Notepad app on Windows could soon get an AI upgrade

Credit: X user Tero Alhonen Users have spotted a new Cowriter feature in the latest build of Notepad. This Cowriter function could let you rewrite text, make text longer or shorter, and change the tone and format. Notepad’s Cowriter function is not yet live, but the presence of marketing images indicates it could soon be

The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered mobile device that’s nothing like anything you’ve ever seen

Credit: Rabbit Inc The Rabbit R1 is a handheld device that uses AI to learn how you use apps and then simplifies the process for you. It’s powered by a MediaTek processor, has a push-to-talk button, a 360-degree rotatable camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even a 4G SIM slot. The device costs $199 and is now

X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X’s systems” and that the account didn’t have 2FA enabled (CNBC)

CNBC: X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X’s systems” and that the account didn’t have 2FA enabled — – X said late Tuesday it has completed a preliminary probe into the compromised account of the U.S. Securities …

The SEC’s X account was hijacked to post a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge The Securities and Exchange Commission’s official social media account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a notice on Tuesday evening falsely claiming it had approved listings for Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which has since been deleted. Moments later, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a post on his own

X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X’s systems” and that the account didn’t have 2FA enabled (CNBC)

FCC says low-income internet subsidies are endangered as funding runs low

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says that it will be forced to sunset its internet subsidy for low-income families, known as the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), in May if it doesn’t receive additional funding. The program is currently only funded through April this year, despite a White House

Source: Humane laid off 10 employees this week in a cost cutting measure and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Source: Humane laid off 10 employees this week in a cost cutting measure and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions — Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those

Sony brings Fortnite to the car (bumper)

Where we drivin’? | Image: Sony Sony and Honda’s in-development Afeela EV will let you display messages and images on its front bumper, according to a new video about the car, including the ability to… advertise video games. You can see the screen-ified bumper — sorry, the “Media Bar” — starting at 3:17 in the

A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps (Julie Carr Smyth/Associated Press)

Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press: A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental

X announces new shows with former CNN host Don Lemon, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and sports commentator Jim Rome, amid a push into video (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: X announces new shows with former CNN host Don Lemon, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and sports commentator Jim Rome, amid a push into video — The tech company also announced a 10-show deal with Range Media Partners, and a deal with Tulsi Gabbard.

At CES 2024, Walmart unveils a generative AI search tool and says it is developing a tool to help InHome users quickly add commonly ordered items to their carts (Siddharth Cavale/Reuters)

Siddharth Cavale / Reuters: At CES 2024, Walmart unveils a generative AI search tool and says it is developing a tool to help InHome users quickly add commonly ordered items to their carts — Walmart (WMT.N) on Tuesday unveiled two new AI-powered tools at the CES conference in Las Vegas to help shoppers quickly search

Echo brings the best of Netflix’s Marvel era energy to Disney Plus

Marvel Studios Disney Plus’ Echo limited miniseries feels like the studio’s first successful attempt at matching the energy that made Netflix’s Marvel shows great. Continue reading…

AI Pet Door Rejects Dead Mice

If you have pet with a little access door to the outside world, and that pet happens to be a cat, you’re likely on the receiving end of all kinds of lifeless little lagniappes. Don’t worry, it’s CES season out in Las Vegas and a company called Flappie has the solution — an AI-powered cat

SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Gene Maddaus / Variety: SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets — The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s executive director …

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