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Spotify lays off 200 employees amid shift in podcast strategy
Spotify Technology S.A. is letting go 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce, as part of an effort to revamp its podcast business. The company announced the layoffs today. The move comes a few months after Spotify detailed plans to cut about 600 roles in a bid to reduce operating costs. Prior to that ...
SEC sues Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao over securities law violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Binance Holdings Ltd. and founding Chief Executive,Changpeng Zhao with violating securities laws. The SEC has also named a Binance affiliate, BAM Trading Services Inc., in the lawsuit. It helped the company operate the U.S. version of its cryptocurrency exchange. Binance, BAM and Zhao are facing 13 charges ...
Carbon Health launches medical charting tool powered by GPT-4
Carbon Health Technologies Inc. today debuted a new software tool that uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 model to help physicians create medical charts faster. Founded in 2015, Carbon Health operates a network of more than 100 primary and urgent care clinics in the U.S. It provides its clinics with access to an internally developed software platform, ...
Google rolls out passkey support to Workspace and Google Cloud
Google LLC today started rolling out support for passkeys to its Workspace productivity suite and Google Cloud. The feature, which provides a more secure alternative to passwords, will become available in the coming days. It’s rolling out to Workspace and Google Cloud a few weeks after the search giant added passkey support to consumer accounts. ...
Platformatic raises $3.5M to ease containerized application development
Platformatic Inc., a San Francisco-based development tooling startup, today announced that it has closed a $3.5 million funding round led by Decibel Partners. Panache Ventures participated as well along with several angel investors. Platformatic said that it will use the capital to grow its workforce. Additionally, the startup plans to build more features for its ...
Apple reportedly developing new high-end Macs and M2 Ultra chip
Apple Inc. is reportedly developing two new high-end Macs that could make their debut at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Bloomberg reported the development initiative today. Besides new Macs, WWDC is expected to see Apple announce several other new products. It’s believed that the main highlight will be the Reality Pro, the company’s ...
Google reportedly invests in generative AI startup Runway at $1.5B valuation
Updated: On June 29, Runway announced that it has raised $141 million in funding from Google LLC, Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Ventures and other backers. The capital was provided as an extension to a $50 million Series C round the startup first closed last December. Google LLC has reportedly invested in Runway AI Inc., a New ...
CrowdStrike debuts generative AI cybersecurity chatbot and new AWS integrations
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is rolling out new capabilities aimed at helping companies more effectively respond to breach attempts. The first set of features, a collection of integrations for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud platform, was detailed this morning. A day earlier, CrowdStrike introduced a chatbot called Charlotte AI that runs on artificial intelligence models from ...
Lightmatter reels in $154M for its optical interconnect and chips
Lightmatter Inc., a startup with technology that allows chips to exchange data using light, has raised $154 million in new funding. The Series C round was announced this morning. It included contributions from the venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., as well as a number of other institutional investors. The ...
Top AWS data center executive Chris Vonderhaar departs
Chris Vonderhaar, the executive who oversaw Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center network for the past four and a half years, has left the company. The news was first reported by GeekWire on Tuesday. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. confirmed the development later that day. The company didn’t provide additional details, such as who is set ...