Tech

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Justice Department completed its evidentiary phase in its Google antitrust trial, with closing arguments scheduled for May 2024. Can an industry giant legally engage in anticompetitive business practices if they improve its product and its customers’? Apparently, Judge Amit Mehta has “no idea” how he …

Elon Musk’s implantable brain wave reading chip company, Neuralink, has raised $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing. According to this week’s filing, the company increased its early August tranche, which Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led, from $280 million to $323 million. The filing lists 32 investors. …

ByteDance’s gaming ambition was costly and short-lived. In late 2021, the TikTok parent company announced that video games would be one of its six core business units, threatening Tencent, NetEase, and rising star MiHoYo. After two years of poor performance, Nuverse, the gaming department, is drastically scaling back its operations, …

On X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk said headlines will be shown in preview cards with URLs again after removing titles last month. Musk announced on X that a URL Card update will display the title in the upper portion. He didn’t provide a rollout timeline or card example. The Tesla …

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced Wednesday that it now lets users worldwide download public reels. Before this update, you could only save reels to Instagram for later viewing. Mosseri said on his Instagram broadcast channel that downloaded reels will have a TikTok-like account name watermark. Tap share and download to …

Four months after launching on Windows, Swiss privacy-focused company Proton launched its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service for Mac. Nine years ago, Proton focused on Gmail alternatives like Proton Mail, but now it offers VPNs, password managers, calendars, and cloud storage. After launching Proton Drive on the web in …

Tech companies hoarded high-performance GPUs before Washington banned their exports to China in anticipation of a tech war. In an earnings call this week, Baidu CEO Robin Li said the company has enough AI chips to train Ernie Bot for “next year or two.” “Inference requires less powerful chips, and …

For now, the OpenAI power struggle that captivated the tech world after co-founder Sam Altman was fired has ended. But how do you interpret? It seems like OpenAI died and a new, but not necessarily better, startup replaced it. Ex-Y Combinator President Altman returns, but is he justified? OpenAI’s founding …

Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi’s father was blind from congenital glaucoma at age four. Due to this, his father was active with the Iranian Blind Foundation. Vaghefi says most of his childhood pals were blind or had blind parents. Vaghefi considered becoming a physician to aid people like his …

Several internet investors have backed a new firm that uses open source projects and knowledge management to target the lucrative office productivity market. Famous founders Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Steve Chen (YouTube), Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub), Bob Young (Red Hat), and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera) have invested $6.4 million in AppFlowy. OSS Capital …