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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Investors Worry Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause a ‘World of Hurt’ for Startups
“To the extent you are midstream in raising capital, get that closed as soon as possible. We repeat, close anything midstream ASAP,” Hazard wrote. “And be really judicious about how your capital is being deployed.”Managing partner Charles Hudson told WIRED that his venture firm, Precursor, has stakes in several ecommerce…
Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification
Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter.The social platform, which has experienced rapid growth since it opened to the public in early 2024, formerly relied on an unconventional self-verification system where users could “authenticate” themselves by including…
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half-Marathon in Beijing
While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eye-catching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern. Even being able to run a half-marathon isn’t a very useful benchmark for their skills—it’s not like there’s market demand for robots that can compete with human…
The Subjective Charms of Objective-C
After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and…
The US Is Turning a Blind Eye to Crypto Crimes
Meanwhile, the Trump family’s crypto empire continues to expand. In late March, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s sons, announced a new bitcoin mining venture. Shortly before that, the parent company of Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, entered an agreement to launch a series of crypto-exchange-traded funds.…
What Trump’s Tariffs Mean for Tech—and You
Katie Drummond: Very exciting promise by Howard Lutnick. I can't wait to talk about whether any of that is actually possible.Michael Calore: Certainly not in the short term.Lauren Goode: Was this the same moment where he talked about the army of millions using tiny screws?Katie Drummond: Oh, yes. The teeny…
New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
Discord is facing a new lawsuit from the state of New Jersey, which claims that the chat app is engaged in “deceptive and unconscionable business practices” that put its younger users in danger.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, comes after a multiyear investigation by the New Jersey Office of Attorney General.…
Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including using computers and smartphones. For now, though, they’re too error prone to be much use.A new agent called S2, created by the startup Simular AI, combines frontier models with models…
BYD Launches Denza in Europe—Another Mighty Impressive EV Brand the US Won’t Get
Denza was originally founded in 2010 as a joint venture between BYD and Mercedes-Benz, launching its first car into the Chinese market in 2014. Now wholly owned by BYD, it went through a significant rebrand in 2021, with Wolfgang Egger—who previously led design teams at Audi and Lamborghini—joining at the…
Where Were Big Tech’s CEOs on Tariffs?
If you logged on to X or Bluesky this past week, you were likely swept up in the onslaught of posts about Trump’s reciprocal tariffs and the plunging stock market. And, if you follow the tech industry as closely as I do, you probably also noticed who wasn’t posting about…
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