Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung’s SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances …
The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn’t lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers (Rebecca Rainey/Bloomberg Law)
Rebecca Rainey / Bloomberg Law:
The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn’t lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers — Search by Topic — The US Labor Department rolled out a new website Tuesday to instruct employers and workers …
London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)
Tom Matsuda / Sifted:
London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M — Apron CEO Bogdan Uzbekov says the fintech is currently focused on growth over profitability — A former product lead at Revolut …
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors’ copyrighted works (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors’ copyrighted works — At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B — Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company’s faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company’s faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in an acquisition valued at $450M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in an acquisition valued at $450M — The deal comes less than three weeks after the software giant paid $1.9 billion for Own, another Israel-founded company. — Salesforce
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game’s producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around …
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices of Carahsoft, a government IT vendor, as part of a probe into a company with which Carahsoft has done business (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW:
Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices of Carahsoft, a government IT vendor, as part of a probe into a company with which Carahsoft has done business — The FBI confirmed the raid but declined to provide further details. — The FBI raided the Reston, Virginia headquarters of IT …
