How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features — The headset is already changing disabled users' lives. — In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected …
Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO — Donald Tang's remarks are said to have annoyed Chinese officials who need to approve London IPO — Online fast-fashion retailer Shein …
The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November — - Industry seeks regulatory changes to blunt SEC influence — Democrats Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester targeted by crypto
Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets — Move is a sign of how traditional investment models are under threat by a challenging VC environment
Boulder, Colorado-based Enveda, which combines AI with ancient remedies for drug discovery, raised a $55M Series B extension from investors including Microsoft — For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn't isolate its active ingredient until the 1800s
Amazon and telecom Vrio plan to launch a satellite internet service in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, coming online in mid-2025 — Amazon (AMZN.O) and telecommunications firm Vrio will jointly launch a satellite internet service in seven South American countries …
Dublin-based AccountsIQ, which offers AI-powered bookkeeping, raised €60M, after raising just €12.7M in its nearly 20 year history, and reports 1,000 clients — The European economy is on shaky ground, but there is a silver lining for enterprise startups: Those building tools …
Ant Group spent a record ~$2.9B on research in 2023, as the Alibaba affiliate develops its BaiLing LLM; Ant and affiliate MYbank served 87M businesses by 2023 — Founded by Jack Ma, Ant has been developing technology including its large language model BaiLing, which won approval …
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings — - Rubrik's revenue and subscription revenue both beat forecasts — Firm went public at a volatile time for cybersecurity firms
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy …
UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019 — - Oil giant set up Wa'ed Ventures to invest in tech startups — Tenderd says Aramco, Maersk are potential new customers
Apple's OpenAI partnership took up just two minutes of its one hour and 45 minute WWDC keynote, as the company focused on its own Apple Intelligence products — Apple's keynote presentation at its Worldwide Developers Conference lasted more than an hour and 45 minutes, but only about two minutes were devoted to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Raspberry Pi jumps by up to 39% on its London trading debut, hitting a £542M market cap, after pricing shares at £2.80, and expects to ship 8.4M PCs in 2024 — Listing set to give creator of low-cost computers a market valuation above £542mn
Sources: Shein recorded $32.2B in sales in 2023, up 40% YoY, compared with 37% YoY growth in 2022, and doubled its net profit to $1.6B, for a 5% profit margin — China-founded fast fashion giant Shein lifted its net profit margin even as it posted slightly faster revenue growth in 2023 …
Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using new “immersive audio and video” tech that uses 3D sound on a 5G smartphone, as part of the 5G Advanced standard — Nokia (NOKIA.HE) CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using a new technology called “immersive audio and video” …
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
