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Zoom is considering LLM partnerships as generative AI has taken center stage. The company announced a partnership with Anthropic to use its Claude chatbot on Zoom Contact Center today. In March, Zoom announced a partnership with OpenAI to add more generative AI functionality to its products. After two decades of …

Since Tesla announced its intention to build one in the summer of 2021, humanoid robots have been emerging. Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporate (or Sanctuary AI) just reached a major milestone. Phoenix, a form factor from Vancouver, British Columbia, was unveiled. The 5’7′′, 155-pound bipedal robot aims to augment (or replace) …

In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer, which doctors ask asthmatics to blow hard into to measure lung volume. Simple concept. Despite that, technology has barely changed. Modern spirometers don’t measure CO2 expelled by the lungs, a crucial COPD indicator. A Cambridge, UK, startup has developed a revolutionary …

European conferences and other in-person events are rushing to use facial recognition without considering data protection risks. beware: Spain’s data protection watchdog fined Mobile World Congress (MWC) organizers €200,000 ($224k) for violating privacy rules at the 2021 show in Barcelona. The Agencia Espaola de Protección de Datos (AEPD) found MWC …

San Francisco’s MobileCoin CPO Robert Lee was stabbed to death. Around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a stabbing along the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa. He died in the hospital. NBC Bay Area later reported that 43-year-old Robert Lee was stabbed. MobileCoin told …

Many adult entertainment websites owned by MindGeek, including Pornhub, Brazzers, and Redtube, were purchased by a Canadian private equity company, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP). The deal’s specifics were kept under wraps by ECP, which was only founded last year. With ECP’s resources and extensive expertise spanning regulatory, law enforcement, public …

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, the Japanese marketing technology company Geniee, a member of the SoftBank Group, paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (previously known as AdPushup), providing investors in the startup that started out in India with a …

Co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko called it the start of a “new golden age of aviation” as a Universal Hydrogen-branded jet made its first test flight in eastern Washington using the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever used to power an aircraft. Even though the 15-minute test flight of the modified …

Roofing isn’t glamorous. It meets the three Ds of automation—dull, dirty, and dangerous—with ease. Some smart roboticists could transform it. It’s always one of the most dangerous construction jobs, but there are a lot of roofs in the world, so everyone who wants one should have one. At launch, Renovate …

Telecom. Network and enterprise will dominate Barcelona’s huge mobile expo more than ever. Next Monday’s event appears to be focusing less on consumers. Mobile World Congress was never a consumer tech expo, but smartphone makers made it a useful launchpad. CES (held in January) is where smart homes, wearables, autos, …