Tech
AI Summary
- The tech industry is navigating significant advancements and challenges, with Cyera acquiring Oasis Security for $1B to address AI agent safety and Sam Altman signaling a potential slowdown in AI development.
- The burgeoning robotaxi sector faces increased scrutiny following Waymo's emergency response failures, while Waymo and Baidu are entering the London market.
- Major tech players are making strategic moves: PayPal is open to higher takeover offers after a strong earnings report, and Elon Musk's X is rolling out its Money app in the US.
- eBay has agreed to a $56 million settlement, resolving a long-standing harassment campaign against e-commerce newsletter writers, highlighting the ethical responsibilities of large platforms.
- AI's growing sophistication and expense are creating financial pressure and new concerns, as evidenced by the US ban on foreign robots and ongoing discussions around AI's impact on various sectors.
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TechCrunch
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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
8 hours ago
by Marina Temkin
AI, Security, Cyera, M&AThe deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
10 hours ago
by Julie Bort
AI, Fundraising, Startups, TC, bot detection, cybersecurity startups, In Brief, Insight PartnersSpur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
11 hours ago
by Julie Bort
AI, Enterprise, Startups, TC, lawsuit, RipplingRunlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
12 hours ago
by Tim Fernholz
AI, sam altmanHis change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
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Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy
13 hours ago
by Sarah Perez
Hardware, Startups, ozlo, sleepbudsOzlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.
Hacker News
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The Verge
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The US is banning foreign robots
9 hours ago
News, Policy, Politics, Robot, TechThe Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters . In an announcement on Tuesday , the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models - but it is not limited to robots that walk around. Though the FCC says the move isn't targeted at a specific country, it will have a major impact on China as
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Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years
10 hours ago
by Stevie Bonifield
Entertainment, Music, News, Security, TechAriana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals," referred to as "John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through 100." The lawsuit also says that "In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs" were "hacked, stolen, and leaked," adding that hundreds of similar leaks have happened since Grande's music debut in 2011. The stolen content is said to include "still-in-production, unreleased masters and demos, footage from recording sessions, music videos, …
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The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding
11 hours ago
by Mia Sato
Creators, Labor, News, TechIn June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intention to form a union . Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit has declined to voluntarily recognize their union. "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts, they have already proven that not to be the case behind the scenes," a press release sent by Communications Workers of America, with which Wiki Workers United is affiliated, reads in part . "When
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eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement
11 hours ago
by Emma Roth
Law, News, Policy, TecheBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC . The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay's former executives sent live insects , a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, and other strange items to David and Ina Steiner over their newsletter's coverage of eBay. The Steiners, who operate the EcommerceBytes newsletter, sued eBay and its former executives - including ex-CEO Devin Wenig - in 2021. The lawsuit accused the company
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AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
12 hours ago
AI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, News, OpenAI, TechEmployees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the employees wrote in the statement. "The world's leading Al companies believe they could be close to automating Al research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate Al progress, but there is a real
Wired
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