Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
How some parents, seeking the ability to reach their kids at all times, have become unexpected but forceful opponents of schools' attempts to ban phones — Students' phone use is disruptive, but teachers and administrators seeking a fix face an unlikely opponent — A rural school district in Colorado tried to ban smartphones.
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
How some parents, seeking the ability to reach their kids at all times, have become unexpected but forceful opponents of schools' attempts to ban phones (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …
Sources: Biden administration is encouraging US tech groups to seek AI deals in the UAE and brokered Microsoft's deal with G42, as it seeks an edge over China (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: Biden administration is encouraging US tech groups to seek AI deals in the UAE and brokered Microsoft's deal with G42, as it seeks an edge over China — Biden administration brokers talks between Microsoft, OpenAI Google and the UAE, as Washington seeks edge over China
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down — But CIOs aren't quite convinced that everyone needs an AI-enabled PC just yet — The biggest innovation in years has come …
A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
Kate Rogers / CNBC:
A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed — A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining a street in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 1, 2021.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which raised $50M and offers AI-powered webpage personalization, a source says for "eight-figures" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which raised $50M and offers AI-powered webpage personalization, a source says for “eight-figures” — Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that's raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization.
Meta is restricting certain election-related keywords for Meta AI in India due to ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta is restricting certain election-related keywords for Meta AI in India due to ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week — Last week, Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Sources: Mistral plans to raise €500M at an over €5B valuation from multiple VCs and wealth funds, after raising ~€400M at a €2B valuation in December 2023 (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: Mistral plans to raise €500M at an over €5B valuation from multiple VCs and wealth funds, after raising ~€400M at a €2B valuation in December 2023 — One-year-old French start-up approached by multiple investors who view it as Europe's answer to OpenAI
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year — After nearly a year of testing, Twitch's new TikTok-style discovery feed will finally roll out to all users later this month.
French B2B software company Planisware raised €278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~€21 on its debut, giving Planisware a €1.1B valuation (Thyagaraju Adinarayan/Bloomberg)
Thyagaraju Adinarayan / Bloomberg:
French B2B software company Planisware raised €278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~€21 on its debut, giving Planisware a €1.1B valuation — - Stock opens at €21.01 versus €16 per share IPO price — France joins nascent recovery in European IPOs after drought
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries (Amanda Lee/Wall Street Journal)
Amanda Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries — Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain amid rising U.S.-China tensions and global concerns of decoupling trade
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designed for repairs (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designed for repairs — Field's crew caught the cable on the first try and nearly had it aboard when the rope snapped and slipped back into the sea.
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company implemented a rotating CEO system this month, aiming to nurture successors, choosing a leader from its six businesses (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
Yimou Lee / Reuters:
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company implemented a rotating CEO system this month, aiming to nurture successors, choosing a leader from its six businesses — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) has this month started a rotating chief executive system in an overhaul of its management designed …
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device "the Apple way" and raising too much (Benjamin Sandofsky/Sandofsky)
Benjamin Sandofsky / Sandofsky:
A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device “the Apple way” and raising too much — Why You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital — An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me …
Monday, April 15, 2024
Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised ~$100M in pre-IPO funding at a $1.5B+ valuation and reports its first annual operating profit (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised ~$100M in pre-IPO funding at a $1.5B+ valuation and reports its first annual operating profit — - Used-vehicle platform courts investors with profit pledges — Carro vies with Malaysia's Carsome for region's top spot
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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