A look at the battle between Uber and its unlikely ally, Chinese-owned rival 99, against the São Paulo city government, which banned motorcycle taxis in 2023 — The ride-hailing rivals are taking on the government of São Paulo, which banned motorcycle taxis.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them “wasteful spending” — - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered cuts at the Pentagon including some consulting contracts.
AI reasoning models cost more to benchmark, making it harder to independently verify claims; Artificial Analysis: OpenAI's o1 costs $2,767.05 to evaluate — AI labs like OpenAI claim that their so-called “reasoning” AI models, which can “think” through problems step by step …
Madrid-based Jobandtalent, which connects gig workers with companies, raised a $103M Series F at a $1.5B valuation, down from its $500M Series E at $2.35B — Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google would add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but offered no timeframe — Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.
Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC linked the unnamed forum to 50+ deaths in the UK — A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK's online regulator - its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act.
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...
