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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

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Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help

Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

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OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

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It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

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Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

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Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

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Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

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Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

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Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

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Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion

The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question looming over a round of this size at this valuation:

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Uber and WeRide ramp up robotaxi operations in Dubai

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

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North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

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FedEx chooses partnerships over proprietary tech for its automation strategy

FedEx recently announced a partnership with Berkshire Gray as the company works with external players to develop its automation tech.

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Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles

The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.

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Health data giant CareCloud says hackers accessed patients’ medical records

CareCloud, a major provider of medical records storage, said hackers accessed one of its repositories of patient data earlier in March. It provides technology for more than 45,000 providers covering m

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Rivian spinoff Also will build autonomous delivery vehicles for DoorDash

DoorDash joins Greenoaks Capital in another $200 million funding round for Also, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million.

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Speechify’s Windows app uses local models for transcription and dictation

Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across apps.

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With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

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Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address

Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won't be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.

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