Microsoft’s ongoing outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, Files, Meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant said in a post on x Around 2:30 a.m. ET it reported that the outage was caused by “a portion of the service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected.”…
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Tesla is offering robotaxi rides to passengers in Austin without a human safety driver in the front seat. CEO Elon Musk Posted on its social media platform He then made a recruitment pitch for engineers interested in “solving real-world AI”, which he says will “potentially boost AGI”, to join the Tesla AI team. Tesla starts…
Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job applicants a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff. But as AI coding tools have gotten better, testing has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted fraud. Team leader Tristan Hume describes the history of the challenge In a blog post…
Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot similar to ChatGPIT, according to a report From Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Their sources say the Siri chatbot, which will be integrated into iOS 27, could be the centerpiece of Apple’s WWDC presentation in June. The Siri chatbot, internally named “Campos”, will work with…
The VCs who backed OpenEvidence clearly aren’t worried OpenAI and Anthropic New health information products. startup on wednesday announced It raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $12 billion, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST. This is double its previous raise in October: $200 million $6 billion led by…
Ethos Technologies has priced its initial public offering and is expected to go public on Thursday, making it one of the first tech IPOs of the year. If it hits its current price range of $18 to $20 per share, it would enter at $1.26 billion at the highest price — raising $102.6 million for…
Investors and companies alike are trying to take advantage of the developmental gains in AI to make leaps in technologies like robotics and autonomous vehicles – what is now being called “physical AI”. This means that some of the billions of dollars that AI startups receive are starting to go toward the suppliers who work…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says consumers are starting to see higher prices as sellers look to absorb additional costs from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Jassi told cnbc Amazon and many of its third-party sellers had stockpiled inventory ahead of the tariffs to keep prices down, but most of that supply ran out last fall. “So…
Database provider ClickHouse secures $400 million at $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, That represents a nearly 2.5x increase from its $6.35 billion valuation last May. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, The startup saidWith participation from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. ClickHouse, which spun…
