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Nowadays is a seed-stage company doing something really useful with AI. It automates large event planning from emails to phone calls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Recently, Amp Robotics changed its business model to focus on running entire facilities that sort recyclables. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent this week. Another annual tradition now is that Vogels, who joined Amazon in 2004, publishes a series of predictions for the next year. It’d be easy to think that this year’s predictions are all…

Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt are demanding the Department of Defense to do more to secure its telecommunications. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

During an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that it’d be “profoundly un-American” for Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, to wield political influence to “hurt competitors” and “advantage [his] own businesses.” “I don’t think people would tolerate that,” he said…

The U.S. consumer protection agency said it’s closing the loophole to block the “widespread evasion” of federal law by data brokers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a U.K. competition class-action style lawsuit that’s seeking £1 billion (around $1.25 billion at current exchange rates) in damages. It revolves around accusations related to fees the software giant charged businesses and other organizations for licensing Windows Server when they were customers of rival cloud computing platforms…

Swiggy has expanded its 10-minute food delivery service to more than 400 cities and towns across India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Slowly but surely, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit has become a major player in the call/contact center space with its Amazon Connect cloud-based (and AI-centric) contact center service, which launched back in 2017. Today, companies like Air Canada, Dish Network and U.S. Bank use the platform for their customer service needs…

At its re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon on Sunday announced a somewhat unusual new service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers: Data Transfer Terminal, a set of physical locations where customers can plug in their storage devices to upload data to the AWS cloud…