THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United Nations’ highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings are scheduled at the International Court of Justice, during which … Read more
Amazon Prime Video logo displayed on a phone screen and Amazon Prime Video website displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on July 26, 2022. Nurphoto | Getty Images Amazon’s Prime Video has won the exclusive rights to stream a National Football League playoff game … Read more
The residential solar industry has been a victim of its own success. People across the country have raced to install solar panels to take advantage of generous net metering rates, where utilities pay people a premium for their power. Meanwhile, big power producers have found themselves forced to shut off at what used to be … Read more
Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, said today it has closed $124 million (165 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding to develop its third AI chip, called Rebel. The startup will also use the new capital, oversubscribed with an initial target of $90 million, to ramp up production of its … Read more
Popular TikTok food reviewer Keith Lee‘s journey has been a non-stop whirlwind of inspiration, gratitude, and excitement. To add to his many accomplishments, the content creator was recently nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Social Media Personality of the Year! Keith Lee Has Been Nominated For A NAACP Award! Keith Lee – Instagram … Read more
Netflix has officially announced its multi-film partnership with Japanese animation studio Studio Ponoc. This new deal includes the global streaming rights to the studio’s upcoming animated film slate. Studio Ponoc’s upcoming fantasy anime movie The Imaginary will be the first one that will premiere on Netflix. It is scheduled to stream later this year following … Read more
There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an $80 million Series B round co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. The round, which also had … Read more
Japan just became the latest country to set up camp on the moon — although, how hard it actually touched down is still a little unclear. Yes, it’s a big deal … Japan is now the fifth country to get some kind of spacecraft up on the big ball of cheese in the sky — … Read more
If the pitches reaching my inbox are any indication, one of the hot new things in generative AI is “copilots” for cybersecurity. Microsoft has one. Google, too. So does Vicarius, the vulnerability remediation platform — recently, it launched a text-generating AI tool, vuln_GPT, that helps write system breach detection and remediation scripts. Perhaps it’s Vicarius’ … Read more
Governance, risk management and compliance — GRC for short — remains one of the most active startup areas in terms of VC investments. According to Tracxn, the private market data tracker, the roughly 1,500 vendors selling GRC software had received $28.7 billion in funding as of 2021. It’s no wonder there’s such high interest. GRC … Read more