Zomato faces $95 million India tax bill
Zomato, India’s top food delivery and quick commerce platform, has been slapped with a tax bill of $94.5 million. The Indian tax authority has ordered the $32 billion firm to pay 401.7 crore in allegedly…
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Anthropic’s 3.5 Haiku model comes to Claude users
Anthropic has released one its newest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform, Claude. Reports of 3.5 Haiku’s launch in Claude began rolling in Thursday morning on social media, and…
United and Air Canada can now use Apple AirTags to track lost luggage
Arriving in time for holiday travel and potentially lost luggage, a new feature that allows Apple AirTag owners to share the location of a lost item is now integrated with the customer service systems of…
DOJ asks court to reject TikTok’s bid to temporarily block sell-or-ban law
The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network…
Evinced’s $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe
Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen. The company is about to expand to…
Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good
People don’t sing as much as they used to, and Mike Wilson wants to change that. The former Devolver exec has of late been exploring how games can help with wellness, and his latest attempt…
17 Best Gifts for Babies and Toddlers, Editor Tested and Reviewed
One of the most intimidating things I ever did in my twenties was attend my first baby shower. I was still in college, and if there was an online registry of some kind, nobody bothered…
Gigs, an ‘MVNO in a box,’ gets $73M to power mobile network services for any company
Gigs, a platform that makes it easier for any company to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), has raised $73 million in a Series B round of funding. The announcement comes as countless companies…
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes in the region of 1 million public-domain books, spanning…
After Meta signals end to publisher payouts, Australia plots Big Tech news tax
A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube’s parent Google to negotiate with news publishers to pay for journalism reshares. The News Media Bargaining Code forced Big Tech…
Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions
Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: the Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers. Instead, Skype is locking into…
Cartesia claims its AI is efficient enough to run pretty much anywhere
It’s becoming increasingly costly to develop and run AI. OpenAI’s AI operations costs could reach $7 billion this year, while Anthropic’s CEO recently suggested that models costing over $10 billion could arrive soon. So the hunt is…