One of the strangest episodes in the history of e-commerce has come to an end. eBay and several former eBay employees have agreed to pay $56 million to a couple who wrote newsletters and who were targeted by the company’s former executives in a horrific campaign of targeted harassment that took place in 2019. Ina
Waymo and other robotaxi operators face increased scrutiny (and possible new federal requirements) over how their autonomous vehicles interact with emergency services, a regulatory risk that is increasingly difficult for the industry to ignore. Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) is the latest lawmaker to pressure the industry with a bill that would direct federal regulators to
A Katalyst Space robot that was launched to grab a space telescope and lift it to a higher orbit spun out of control after a series of malfunctions, NASA and the company said today. The company is trying to stabilize the spacecraft using backup systems before NASA decides if the mission can continue. This is
Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal that is expected to be paid primarily in cash, with the remainder in Cyera stock. Oasis focuses on non-human identities,
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it may be time to “accelerate” AI development so the world is ready for it. “We may have to accelerate the pace of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new levels of capability,” he told Patrick O’Shaughnessy, host of the Invest
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Department of Defense engineers in 2017, five years before the public launch of ChatGPT, was prescient. The startup’s technology helps companies distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly hidden bot traffic to help
