Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: A review of Submerged, Apple’s first scripted short film shot in Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience  —  I don’t like submarines.  The idea of being trapped, several hundred feet underwater, in a narrow, creaking death trap?  No thanks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: Sources: Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe doctors’ conversations with their patients, raised $250M at a $2.5B pre-money valuation  —  The boom in artificial intelligence funding has extended into the healthcare sector, where startups are developing generative AI tools to improve patient care. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Elon Musk claims “unsupervised” FSD will come to TX and CA in 2025 for select models and shows a Tesla Robovan, meant to be autonomous and carry up to 20 people  —  At a media event this evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the company’s new Cybercab and shared some details … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY  —  Humans have automated tasks for centuries.  Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they’ve got a name for their solution: agents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest, bringing its total funding to ~$59M  —  As the demand for AI surges, AI vendors are devoting greater bandwidth to data security issues.  Not only are they being compelled … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Four of Tesla’s direct reports to Elon Musk, including the CIO and the global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, resigned before Tesla’s robotaxi event  —  – Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” as part of an investigation into crypto price manipulation  —  The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lara O’Reilly / Business Insider: PayPal launches PayPal Ads, meant to help US marketers tap into data about the billions of transactions across PayPal’s platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  – PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sources detail Meta’s work on an Orion consumer version that could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, and more  —  When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: The US and the UK announce an agreement to keep children safer online, including plans to set up an online safety working group to share evidence and expertise  —  The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC … Lees verder op Tech Meme