Category: Technology

Financial Times: Sources: Arm seeks to raise prices for its chip designs by charging device makers based on the value of a device instead of chipmakers based on a chip’s value  —  SoftBank-owned group aims to charge more for each chip design in radical shake-up of business model

The funding landscape remains very tough for technology startups, but there are still some pockets, and specific companies, driving a lot of interest right now among investors because they look like they’ll break through whatever current macroeconomic trends that are gripping the world. Today, a startup out of Munich called IntegrityNext announced that it has […]

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Canva debuts AI-based tools, including Magic Design which makes personalized templates from images and Magic Presentation which creates slideshows from prompts  —  Covering venture capital, cloud and startups  —  The ten-year-old Australian startup led by Melanie Perkins said annualized revenue …

Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: A profile of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean army reservist and an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, as he prepares to defend TikTok before a skeptical Congress  —  Singapore army reservist and ex-Goldman banker says misconceptions about Chinese-owned app need to be clarified  —  How TikTok Could Become a […]

New York Times: A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims ChatGPT has a left-leaning bias  —  After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.

Lun, a climate tech startup out of Denmark, is on a mission to help homes decarbonize fast — starting with heating systems and swapping out boilers for electric heat pumps. What are heat pumps? The technology is a low carbon form of heating which is based on the principle of refrigeration that offers an alternative […]

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Elden Ring is sweeping gaming’s awards season with another Game of the Year win at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards (GDCA). The FromSoftware title was also awarded the Best Design and Best Visual Arts prizes. The industry has […]

Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: Court filings: FTX will recover assets worth $460M, including $404M in cash, of the $475M seed capital transferred by Alameda to hedge fund Modulo in 2022  —  Alameda Research seeded little-known Bahamas-based hedge fund Modulo Capital with $475 million in 2022.  The recovery includes $404 million in cash.

WhatsApp announced a new Windows client today with performance improvements and better calling features. The new version also supports multi-device sync so you can use WhatsApp even if your phone is switched off. Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Instagram Channel about the announcement saying that the new Windows app enables end-to-end encrypted group calling. The […]

Meta: WhatsApp unveils an updated app for Windows that it says loads faster and enables group video calls with up to eight people and audio calls with up to 32 people  —  Takeaways  — We’re launching a new WhatsApp app for Windows desktop that loads faster and enables group video calls …