Journals

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M  —  The delivery robots have travelled over 11 million miles and completed over six million autonomous… Read More »Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The UK government plans to spend £100M+ to support AI innovation and regulation, including to launch nine research hubs and to help regulators address AI risks  —  The UK government is finally publishing its response to… Read More »The UK government plans to spend £100M+ to support AI innovation and regulation, including to launch nine research hubs and to help regulators address AI risks (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Ryan Morrison / Tom’s Guide: Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data  —  Works in 16 languages  —  Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a… Read More »Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data (Ryan Morrison/Tom’s Guide)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is telling users who forget their Vision Pro passcode that they need to bring the device to a store or mail it to AppleCare customer support to reset it  —  Buyers of Apple Inc.’s new… Read More »Apple is telling users who forget their Vision Pro passcode that they need to bring the device to a store or mail it to AppleCare customer support to reset it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sam Sabin / Axios: The US State Department announces a new policy allowing “the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware”  —  – The visa restrictions would prevent those who have profited from or… Read More »The US State Department announces a new policy allowing “the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware” (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5  —  Details of Microsoft’s multi-platform plans have… Read More »Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Amy Or / Bloomberg: Sources: Reddit had over $800M in revenue in 2023, up 20%+ YoY, and was not profitable for the full year but, according to one source, was profitable in Q4  —  – Social site posted over $800… Read More »Sources: Reddit had over $800M in revenue in 2023, up 20%+ YoY, and was not profitable for the full year but, according to one source, was profitable in Q4 (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $608.4M, vs. $602.4M est., net income $93.4M, up from $30.9M YoY, and LLM tech saw “unrelenting” demand; PLTR up 14%+  —  – Palantir reported fourth-quarter earnings after the… Read More »Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $608.4M, vs. $602.4M est., net income $93.4M, up from $30.9M YoY, and LLM tech saw “unrelenting” demand; PLTR up 14%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn’t offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari  —  Here’s a little bit of… Read More »YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn’t offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta announced it’s deprecating its Facebook Groups API, and developers say doing so will greatly impact companies offering tools to schedule and automate posts  —  The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down… Read More »Meta announced it’s deprecating its Facebook Groups API, and developers say doing so will greatly impact companies offering tools to schedule and automate posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)