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  • Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

    Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

    The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

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  • Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’

    Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’

    Woven Capital is the growth-stage venture capital arm of Toyota, focused on backing founders building in space, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving.

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  • Anthropic is having a month

    Anthropic is having a month

    A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

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

    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

    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, 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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...

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  • Uber and WeRide ramp up robotaxi operations in Dubai

    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

    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 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

    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

    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...

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  • Rivian spinoff Also will build autonomous delivery vehicles for DoorDash

    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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