Tag: big data

Most tech companies talk abstractly about building AI from human behavior. Meta just sent its employees a memo making it concrete, and personal. The company is installing tracking software on employee computers. It will record mouse movements, keystrokes, clicks, and screenshots. And workers cannot …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the company’s first-quarter earnings call with a monetary heads-up — or depending on the mindset of the investor, a warning. Tesla’s capital expenditures will skyrocket to $25 billion in 2026, far outpacing its previous annual spend as it races to stay ahead of the competition and transitions to an…

Image Credits:CFOTO/Future Publishing / Getty Images 3:39 PM PDT · April 22, 2026 Elon Musk said Wednesday that millions of Tesla owners will need hardware upgrades to run a future version of its Full Self-Driving software that doesn’t require human supervision — after he and Tesla spent years promising that wouldn’t be the case. The…

Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a…

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale…

8:02 AM PDT · April 21, 2026 YouTube is expanding its new “likeness detection” technology, which identifies AI-generated content, such as deepfakes, to people within the entertainment industry, the company announced on Tuesday. The technology works similarly to YouTube’s existing Content ID system, which detects copyright-protected material in users’ uploaded videos, allowing rights owners to request…

Image Credits:Einride 7:09 AM PDT · April 21, 2026 Einride is adding 75 of its electric heavy duty trucks to Amazon’s Relay freight network as part of a deal that gives the Swedish startup a toehold in the e-commerce giant’s operations. Einride will also provide charging infrastructure across five locations in the United States, under…

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed palm-sized drones that use bat-inspired ultrasound and AI to navigate through fog, smoke, and other challenging conditions. The device mimics how bats use simple echolocation to navigate dark, cluttered environments with minimal neural processing. The Ghost Murmur mission report illustrates how real-world operations depend on detecting and

In Brief Posted: 12:30 PM PDT · April 19, 2026 Image Credits:Kimberly White for TechCrunch / Flickr (opens in a new window) In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil — Gil made a point about exit timing that’s undoubtedly familiar to founders…

One buyer is on their third Citizen watch, and isn’t looking back…