December 19, 2024news In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; in H1 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed in H2 (Chainalysis) Nearly $2.2 billion worth of crypto funds were stolen from hacks in 2024. In the biggest hack, more than $300 million was […]
December 19, 2024news Smart ring maker Ōura raised a $200M Series D from Fidelity and Dexcom at a $5.2B valuation and says sales doubled in 2024 to ~$500M with 2.5M+ total rings sold (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) Finnish company’s growing popularity has led to its sales more than doubling this year Read More »
December 19, 2024news Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks nationwide; Trump’s FCC started the initiative in 2020 (Washington Post) Read More »
December 18, 2024news OpenAI rolls out a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging it via WhatsApp globally (Hayden Field/CNBC) OpenAI on Wednesday rolled out a new way to talk to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT. Read More »
December 18, 2024news Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier this month, up from a $3B valuation in June (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier this month, up from a $3B valuation in […]
December 18, 2024news Sources: Amazon recently pushed back RTO dates for some staff in Austin, Dallas, and Phoenix by as much as four months, citing a lack of office space (Bloomberg) Sources: Amazon recently pushed back RTO dates for some staff in Austin, Dallas, and Phoenix by as much as four months, citing […]
December 18, 2024news SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge on January 10 to a new law that could lead to a TikTok ban in the US, ahead of the law taking effect on January 19 (Melissa Quinn/CBS News) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban […]
December 18, 2024news Q&A with Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird on generative AI, its impact on work, Copilots, OpenAI, AGI, AI agents, bias, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) Chief product officer of ‘responsible AI’ says the focus needs to be on augmenting — not replicating — human capabilities Read More […]
December 18, 2024news Q&A with Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird on generative AI, its impact on work, Copilots, OpenAI, AGI, AI agents, bias, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) Read More »
December 18, 2024news eMarketer expects Instagram to hit $32B in US ad revenue in 2025, or 50% of Meta’s ad sales; filings: Instagram was ~30% of Meta’s global business in early 2022 (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg) eMarketer expects Instagram to hit $32B in US ad revenue in 2025, or 50% of Meta’s ad sales; filings: Instagram was ~30% […]
