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Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users’ money  —  Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them… Read More »Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users’ money (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Aerospike, which offers a highly scalable NoSQL database platform for processing data queries, raised $109M led by Sumeru, taking its total funding to $241M  —  Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management… Read More »Aerospike, which offers a highly scalable NoSQL database platform for processing data queries, raised $109M led by Sumeru, taking its total funding to $241M (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo: Substack’s new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers  —  And it’ll be worse this time around!  —  The… Read More »Substack’s new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers (Andrea Grimes/Home With The Armadillo)

Hope King / Axios: AT&T plans to invest an additional $3B by 2030 to help close the US digital divide, after initially committing $2B by 2024, which helped nearly 5M Americans  —  – Many Americans want Congress to handle threats… Read More »AT&T plans to invest an additional $3B by 2030 to help close the US digital divide, after initially committing $2B by 2024, which helped nearly 5M Americans (Hope King/Axios)

Financial Times: Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won’t stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains  —  Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains  — … Read More »Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won’t stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains (Financial Times)

Scott Stein / CNET: An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta’s next AR glasses prototype, and more  —  Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past… Read More »An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta’s next AR glasses prototype, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Paris-based Pigment, a subscription-based business planning and forecasting service, raised $145M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, for $393M in total funding  —  – French software startup said to be valued above $1 billion  — Funding… Read More »Paris-based Pigment, a subscription-based business planning and forecasting service, raised $145M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, for $393M in total funding (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting their courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging using AI to solve lab assignments, and more  —  American University, other top M.B.A. programs reorient… Read More »How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting their courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging using AI to solve lab assignments, and more (Lindsay Ellis/Wall Street Journal)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: In-memory computing, which seeks to reduce power consumption by processing data where it’s stored, is seeing a boost in interest fueled by the AI energy crisis  —  So-called in-memory computing is drawing new funding —… Read More »In-memory computing, which seeks to reduce power consumption by processing data where it’s stored, is seeing a boost in interest fueled by the AI energy crisis (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Tim Stelloh / NBC News: A Washington state judge barred the use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence in a ruling that experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court  —  Lawyers for a man charged with… Read More »A Washington state judge barred the use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence in a ruling that experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court (Tim Stelloh/NBC News)