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Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers
Cloudflare Inc. today debuted a new no-code feature for preventing artificial intelligence developers from scraping website content. The capability is available as part of the company’s flagship CDN, or content delivery network. The platform is used by a sizable percentage of the world’s websites to speed up page loading times for users. According to Cloudflare, the ...
Legal AI startup Harvey reportedly seeking $100M in funding at $1.5B valuation
Harvey, a startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for lawyers, is reportedly seeking to raise $100 million in funding. The Information today cited sources as saying that Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund is expected to lead the round. The investment is reportedly set to value Harvey at $1.5 billion, about twice what it was worth following ...
Google’s emissions grew 13% in 2023 amid increasing AI energy demand
Google LLC produced 13% more emissions in 2023 than a year earlier, the search giant disclosed today. The Alphabet Inc. unit attributed the increase primarily to its supply chain and higher data center energy consumption. According to the company, the higher energy demand was partly driven by artificial intelligence workloads. Google and other major cloud ...
Rapid7 acquires rival Noetic Cyber to help enterprises fix vulnerabilities faster
Rapid7 Inc. has acquired Noetic Cyber Inc., a startup with a platform for detecting vulnerabilities in enterprise networks. The companies announced the deal on Monday. The acquisition comes amid reports that an activist investor is pushing Rapid7 to explore a sale. The investor, Jana Partners, last week disclosed that it had acquired a “significant” stake ...
Biden administration awards $504M to 12 regional technology hubs
The Biden administration has awarded $504 million to 12 regional technology hubs that will support research initiatives in areas such as quantum computing, chip production and autonomous driving. The White House announced the move today. The research centers that are set to receive funding are located in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, New ...
Supreme Court returns Texas and Florida social media laws to lower courts
The Supreme Court today avoided making a decision in two closely watched social media moderation cases and instead sent them back to the lower courts for review. The justices issued the decision unanimously. There were four separate concurrences, opinions written by justices who agree with the majority view but for different reasons. The two cases ...
Vaire raises $4M to develop ‘reversible computing’ chips
Vaire Computing Ltd., a startup developing chips based on a nascent processing paradigm known as reversible computing, has raised $4 million in funding. The company announced the investment today. 7percent Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies, and internet entrepreneur Jude Gomila led the raise. They were joined by Seedcamp, Clim8 and multiple ...
EU probe tentatively finds that Meta breached DMA with ad-free subscription
European Union officials have tentatively determined that Meta Platforms Inc. breached the bloc’s Digital Markets Act regulation with a subscription offering it launched last year. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, published its findings today. A final decision will be made in the probe by March 25, 2025. Meta could face steep fines if ...
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman describes content on the open web as ‘freeware’
A prominent Microsoft Corp. executive said that content on the open web is “freeware” in a recent discussion on whether artificial intelligence models may use such material. Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive officer of Microsoft AI, made the remarks during a Tuesday interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Windows Central reported the discussion today. Following a ...
Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership could face EU antitrust probe
Microsoft Corp.’s partnership with OpenAI could face an antitrust probe in the European Union, the bloc’s top competition official has revealed. European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager detailed the potential investigation in a speech today. She disclosed that officials had sent Microsoft and OpenAI a set of questions about “certain exclusivity clauses” in their ...