Nikola, the struggling electric truck developer, disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing that Nasdaq may delist it. Nikola received a delisting notice from the public exchange on May 24 due to its 30-day share price below $1. The company must meet Nasdaq’s minimum price rule of $1 for 10 business …
Read More »Startup Battlefield 200: South American startups
Hi South American early-stage startup founders! Apply for Disrupt 2023’s Startup Battlefield 200. Hurry—time is running out. Application deadline is 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 31. Join Startup Battlefield 200 South America Battlefield 200 (SB 200) showcases 200 promising, impactful early-stage startups. Hand-selects applicants. Free application and participation. South American …
Read More »Celebrities fund consumer savings startup Checkmate
Everybody has. Shopping online and desperate for a promo code to save money. I was there. Enter Checkmate. The startup wants to end promo/discount/coupon code hunting. For that, it raised $15 million in Series A funding. This raise had some interesting features. Checkmate recently raised $5 million. Raising capital soon …
Read More »Ford to use Tesla’s EV charging tech
Ford and Tesla have agreed to give Ford EV owners access to over 12,000 superchargers in the U.S. and Canada. This agreement goes beyond access to Tesla superchargers via adapter. Ford’s 2025 EVs will have Tesla’s NACS charge port. Ford’s second-generation EV lineup includes an electric truck and a three-row …
Read More »OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in 6 days
Before today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app was successful in the U.S. and iOS. According to data.ai, the app has reached half a million downloads in its first six days. Only the Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social’s February 2022 launch outperformed it. As demand for AI …
Read More »11 more countries have the official ChatGPT app
OpenAI tweeted that the official ChatGPT mobile app is available in more countries. Last week, OpenAI launched its iOS-only mobile app in the U.S. Europe, South Korea, New Zealand, and more can now download the app from the App Store. Ad-free ChatGPT is free. Since it’s just a chatbot interface, …
Read More »First-time researchers found wartime spyware
Security researchers and digital rights organizations believe the Azerbaijani government used NSO Group spyware to target a government worker, journalists, activists, and Armenia’s human rights ombudsperson as part of a years-long conflict that has sometimes escalated into war. Access Now, a digital rights group that investigated some of the cyberattacks, …
Read More »Meta cuts more jobs
On Wednesday, Meta will lay off about 6,000 people. Meta’s “Year of Efficiency” is reorganizing to save money and flatten the organization, which includes these cuts. Employees expected layoffs. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a March blog post that he would lay off 10,000 workers in late …
Read More »Twitter glitches Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign announcement
Twitter prevented Florida Governor Ron DeSantis from announcing his 2024 presidential campaign on a Twitter Space with Elon Musk today. The livestreamed group voice chat ended shortly after 3 p.m. PDT. The audio glitched, sometimes only playing reverb noises and distorted speech from the hosts trying to find the problem. …
Read More »Azure AI Studio lets developers create AI “copilots.”
Microsoft wants companies to build AI-powered “copilots” using Azure tools and OpenAI machine learning models. At its annual Build conference, Microsoft launched Azure AI Studio, a new capability within the Azure OpenAI Service that lets customers combine a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or GPT-4 with their own data—text or images—to …
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