Coronavirus: Cyber crime landscape evolving as lockdown eases

June 27, 2020

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns. [...]

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips. [...]

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk. [...]

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak. [...]

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture. [...]

Apple announces September iPhone launch event

Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The [...]

Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road

Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are [...]

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, [...]

Microsoft’s 25th anniversary Xbox will cost $899

The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, although Microsoft says "some of XBOX's most [...]

Elden Ring on the Switch 2 isn’t tarnished

FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has [...]

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