A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from arresting or deporting CEO Imran Ahmed Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH). New York Times report Ahmed is one of five researchers and regulators whose Work to tackle online abuse and disinformation This drew the ire of the US State Department, which announced this week…
Nvidia is buying AI chip startup Grok for $20 billion, according to a report cnbcThe purchase is expected to be Nvidia’s largest to date, and with Groke, Nvidia is poised to become even more influential in chip manufacturing, As tech companies compete to increase their AI capabilities, they need computing power, and Nvidia’s GPUs have…
There’s a lot of hype about AI and robots in health care, but the problem that’s costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every day, not because of the surgery itself, but because of everything from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guessing about…
Enterprise software company ServiceNow agreed to acquire Armis, a nine-year-old cybersecurity startup, for $7.75 billion in cash. This deal is a huge jump in the valuation of the company. Just last month, Armis raised a $435 million pre-IPO funding round, valuing the company $6.1 billion, Armis co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov told TechCrunch last month…
A group of authors, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, are filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, XAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, that’s because another group of authors has already filed a class action lawsuit…
La Poste, France’s national postal and banking service company, was taken offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, According to a company announcementThe Postal Service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information systems,” La Poste’s online mail and banking services, website and mobile app are…
Piracy activist group Anna Archive says it has deleted Spotify’s entire music library, and plans to release it via torrent. Spotify contains approximately 256 million tracks, and Anna’s Archive collection includes metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them. The group stored approximately 86 million music files, approximately 99.6% of all listeners, with a total size…
Google parent company Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer $4.75 billion cash As well as the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was announced on Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power generation capacity with new data centers without relying on local utilities that are…
Uber and Lyft will begin testing Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis in London in 2026, with Waymo and local startup Wave joining the companies that will have autonomous vehicles in the city next year. Lyft CEO David Risher said in a post on X that Lyft will begin testing as soon as it receives local regulatory…
A complete list of all known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2025. Source link
