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Learning-management-software company Instructure to go private in $4.8 billion deal
Market Watch - 25 Jul 2024 16:41Harley-Davidson sparks boycott call for going 'totally woke' with DEI policies
New York Post - 25 Jul 2024 02:34
Robby Starbuck, the right-leaning internet personality with more than half a million followers on X, took aim at Harley-Davidson.
Look North World raises $2.25M for its Fortnite UGC games and creator label
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 23:00
Look North World, a UGC game studio and publisher led by Bungie cofounder Alexander Seropian, has raised $2.5 million.
Freestyle Chess debuts with $12M in funding for tournament series
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 20:18
Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner announced their new Freestyle Chess venture, with which they plan to start a new tournament series.
Forget coding bootcamps: Airtable's AI can build your app in seconds
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 20:00
Airtable's Cobuilder transform app development with AI, allowing non-coders to create custom applications in seconds using natural language prompts.
Forge pivots to game marketing with community-led growth tools
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 19:00
Forge has launched a massive update that pivots the company into loyalty program tools for game developers.
Snowflake ropes in AI21's Jamba-Instruct to help enterprises decode long documents
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 18:20
The hybrid nature of Jamba-Instruct makes it more economically accessible than other models of the same class on Snowflake.
Kamala Harris has supported affordable housing in the past. This refloated policy might benefit renters
CNBC - 25 Jul 2024 16:10
Kamala Harris has been a proponent for affordable housing throughout her career. Some experts believe her LIFT the Middle Class Act will benefit renters.
Durable-goods orders plummeted in June -- but one sector was largely to blame
Market Watch - 25 Jul 2024 16:04Monster Hunter Now reveals MrBeast collab and global group hunts
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 13:00
Monster Hunter Now announces its new Dimensional Link feature, as well as its upcoming MrBeast collaboration.
U.S. consumer tech spending will grow slightly in 2024 and hit 4.4% growth in 2025 | CTA
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 12:00
The CTA projects that overall retail revenues for the U.S. consumer technology industry will finally grow 1% in 2024 to $505 billion.
Boeing to pay $244M fine as part of guilty plea over fatal 737 MAX crashes
New York Post - 25 Jul 2024 01:56
The Justice Department said Boeing had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million after the planemaker breached a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement.
CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage
Business Insider - 25 Jul 2024 01:10Ferrari Launching Crypto Payment System for European Market
Bitcoin.com - 25 Jul 2024 00:50
Ferrari, the iconic Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, announced on Wednesday that it will introduce its cryptocurrency payment system to European dealers by the end of July 2024. This move follows the successful la...
Nvidia's latest AI offering could spark a custom model gold rush
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 00:27
Nvidia launches AI Foundry service, enabling businesses to create custom AI models with increased accuracy and control, potentially revolutionizing enterprise AI adoption.
AI training costs are growing exponentially -- IBM says quantum computing could be a solution
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 23:06
Experts from IBM, AWS and HP Labs tackle the big question of gen AI: soaring training costs, at VB Transform 2024.
Bandai Namco and Look North World partner on Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance on Fortnite
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 22:15
Look North World is creating a UEFN Island within Fortnite to celebrate the upcoming Netflix anime series Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance.
Deadpool and Wolverine movie marketing blitz hits video games
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 21:37
Deadpool and Wolverine hits theaters on July 26 and video game partnerships are a major part of its final marketing push.
AI wars heat up: OpenAI's SearchGPT takes on Google's search dominance
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 20:59
OpenAI launches SearchGPT, challenging Google's search dominance with AI-powered, conversational search that promises faster, easier access to information.
Runway faces backlash after report of copying AI video training data from YouTube
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 20:49
Runway revealed Gen-3 Alpha, an early version of the software, to acclaim for its realism, last month, and began allowing the public...
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl release delayed to November 20
Venture Beat - 25 Jul 2024 20:43
GSC Game World has delayed Stalker 2 one more time within the home stretch of the release, from September 5 to November 20.
First Citizens gets earnings lift from SVB clients returning to the fold
American Banker - 25 Jul 2024 19:00
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based bank grew loans and deposits in the second quarter as it won back business from former customers of the failed Silicon Valley Bank. First Citizens bought the remains of SVB last spring.