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Exclusive: The Family cofounder Oussama Ammar ordered to pay 6.5m in damages Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-family-oussama-ammar-uk-court/
Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy 3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO Joe Selsavage
Robots run a half marathon, slowly It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg
Week in Review: Google loses a major antitrust case Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stuff for you this week: antitrust lawsuits against Google and Meta; Grok can now remember; Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow wants to make his mark; and much, much more. Have a great
Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose
Read what Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook execs said about Instagram before buying it The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s. The U.S. government is accusing Meta of
From search to travel agent: Opera’s agentic AI Browser shows the Web’s future It’s coming up to 30 years since the debut of Norwegian company Opera Browser, and I recently attended an Opera Browser Day event in Lisbon with curiousity. While I’ll be keenly covering some of the rollouts across
Google-backed UK startup Oxa says US operations ”shock absorbed” from Trump tariffs Google-backed UK tech firm Oxa says its US operations are “shock absorbed” from the Trump tariffs, as it says it’s on the “precipice” of scaling. Oxa, founded in 2014, develops software for self-driving vehicles with a focus on selling its software in
Women-focused VC Sistafund pauses investments after losing managing partner, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sistafund-managing-partner-departure/
The defence tech startups fundraising right now, according to VCs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/defence-tech-startups-fundraising/