Cruise recalls entire fleet after robotaxi ran over, dragged pedestrian

GM self-driving car subsidiary Cruise issued a recall for 950 vehicles equipped with its autonomous vehicle software following a crash that left a...

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen such positive signals in fintech

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers...

Upciti helps cities level up their data strategy

Upciti is a French startup that has been working on a hardware sensor for city centers that is easy to install and maintain....

Google-led App Defense Alliance joins Linux Foundation, with Meta and Microsoft joining too

The App Defense Alliance (ADA) an initiative set up by Google back in 2019 to combat malicious Android apps infiltrating the Play app store,...

Spotify brings 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S.

Roughly a month after Spotify announced that a selection of audiobooks would become a part of its Premium subscription, the company is today...

Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI...

Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to launch a new AI-focused startup program at...

Samsung unveils ChatGPT alternative Samsung Gauss that can generate text, code and images

Just a few days after OpenAI’s developer event, Samsung unveiled its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, at the Samsung AI Forum 2023. Samsung...

Meta will start requiring disclosures for political ads manipulated with AI

In 2024, Meta will begin requiring advertisers running political or issue ads on its platforms to disclose when their ads are “digitally created...

Vanguard slashes Ola valuation by 60%-plus; NB reduces Pharmeasy’s by over 90%

The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola by nearly two thirds...

Gogoro’s Smartscooters can now be unlocked via Apple Wallet

Gogoro, the Taiwanese two-wheeler battery swapping giant, says that its smart electric scooters can now be unlocked and turned on via a key...