Al Gore, Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS
Al Gore, Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS : When it comes to climate-related investments, the lion’s share has gone
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CISA contacts fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’
CISA : The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the
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Coreshell
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Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries
Coreshell : The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire
AI
Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion
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WhatsApp will soon limit number of broadcast messages
Chat platform WhatsApp said today that it will limit the number of broadcast messages individual users and businesses can send to curb spam
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Exist, a new social wellness app that helps middle-age users
A new iOS social wellness app called Exist wants to help middle-aged consumers connect and build meaningful communities with one another as they
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Nerdio nabs $500M to power virtual desktops on Azure
Nerdio, a platform designed to simplify how companies deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has raised $500 million in a Series C round
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Google is buying Wiz for up to $33B to beef up in cloud security
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is buying Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32
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In Brief
Apple loses appeal against Germany’s special abuse control
Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special abuse control regime that
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TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’
TurinTech. So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a