Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week

Equal AI, an Indian startup that built an AI assistant to answer phone calls on your behalf, has raised $30 million in a Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital. Think Investments and [...]

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.

SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion in the largest initial public offering ever completed. The previous record holder, Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing, [...]

ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer

ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core pr [...]

The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time

Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges tha [...]

Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users

Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US Geographic Names Information System, while Canadian users see the old name and everyon [...]

Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling

Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europe’s revis [...]

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky

NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the A [...]

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspac [...]

The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath

A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw in AI-generated code. The interesting part is what the code got right. Sygnia, t [...]