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India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order

India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

Who’s really running AI? Inside the billion-dollar battle over regulation with Alex Bores 

The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember and candidate for U.S. Congress. Bores sponsored New York’s… Continua a leggere Who’s really running AI? Inside the billion-dollar battle over regulation with Alex Bores 

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

Bumble adds AI-powered photo feedback and profile guidance tools

Bumble and other popular dating apps, like Match Group’s Tinder and Hinge, have all embraced AI-powered features.

Threads is testing a shortcut to quickly start DM conversations

Users who are part of the test can type “DM me” or “Message me” in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them.

Read AI launches an email-based ‘digital twin’ to help you with schedules and answers

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Memory shortage could cause the biggest dip in smartphone shipments in over a decade

IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year.

Mistral AI inks a deal with global consulting giant Accenture

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.

Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers

The company’s modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

Google paid startup Form Energy $1B for its massive 100-hour battery

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.