Source: TechCrunch
Hyundai reveals the Ioniq 9, its biggest EV to date
Hyundai revealed Wednesday the new Ioniq 9, an all-electric three-row SUV — and its largest EV to date — based on the SEVEN concept that we saw in 2021. (Look, nobody said car-naming protocol had to make sense.)
Emme Hall
Nov. 21, 2024, 4:14 a.m.
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OneCell Diagnostics bags $16M to help limit cancer reoccurrence using AI
Cancer, one of the most life-threatening diseases, is projected to affect over 35 million people worldwide in 2050 — 77% more than the estimated 20 million cases in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. Cancer survivors globally reached 53.5 million, and the reoccurrence rate of the disease varies between 15 and 100%, depending on the cancer type and stage and each patient’s situation. Despite this, the world currently lacks effective solutions for diagnoses to help curb recurrence.
Jagmeet Singh
Nov. 21, 2024, 4:14 a.m.
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WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam
WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages to users — and some of these messages could be considered as spam. For customers, the only option was to either let them send messages and offers, or block the business account altogether. WhatsApp is finally changing that.
Ivan Mehta
Nov. 21, 2024, 4:14 a.m.
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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome to end monopoly
The United States Department of Justice argued Wednesday that Google should divest its Chrome browser as part of a remedy to break up the company’s illegal monopoly in online search, according to a U.S District Court of the District of Columbia filing. This story is developing…
Maxwell Zeff
Nov. 21, 2024, 4:14 a.m.
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OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case.
Kyle Wiggers
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:14 a.m.
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India’s Arzooo, once valued at $310M, sells in distressed deal
Arzooo, an Indian startup founded by former Flipkart executives that sought to bring “best of e-commerce” to physical stores, has sold its assets in distressed sale to Moksha Group.
Manish Singh
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:14 a.m.
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Nvidia’s CEO defends his moat as AI labs change how they improve their AI models
Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday, but that did little to assure investors that its rapid growth would continue. On its earnings call, analysts prodded CEO Jensen Huang about how Nvidia would fare if tech companies start using new methods to improve their AI models.
Maxwell Zeff
Nov. 21, 2024, 1:44 a.m.
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Reddit appears to be back after a 4-hour-long outage
Social media platform Reddit experienced an outage this afternoon at around 12:20 p.m. PT (or possibly even earlier), resulting in thousands of users being unable to access its website and app. After four hours, it appears to be working again.
Lauren Forristal
Nov. 21, 2024, 1:14 a.m.
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Snowflake snaps up data management company Datavolo
Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a data pipeline management company, for an undisclosed sum.
Kyle Wiggers
Nov. 20, 2024, 11:14 p.m.
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Solar power magnate Gautam Adani and others indicted over alleged $250M bribery scheme
Billionaire Gautam Adani and several executives at his company, the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, have been indicted over an alleged scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials in exchange for contracts to a 12 gigawatt solar power project.
Tim De Chant
Nov. 20, 2024, 10:44 p.m.
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