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| Marianne Lavelle / Inside Climate News: |
Sources: the Trump admin plans to end Energy Star, a voluntary program started in 1992 to promote energy savings, initially aimed at PCs, monitors, and printers — Despite having industry support and saving consumers half a trillion dollars over the decades, the program could be eliminated imminently.
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LinkedIn: Caren Holzman, Melanie Davidson, Jill Abelson, Samantha Maglinao, and Chyanne Husar
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to “lower quality” — To that end, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, 43, is plotting a rare recruitment drive so the buy-now-pay-later company's customers …
More: Fortune, Entrepreneur, Runtime, Finextra, Yahoo Finance, PYMNTS.com, and TheStreet
LinkedIn: Thomas Laird, Georg Zoeller, and Morgan Sandberg
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| Lauren Kent / CNN: |
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution — Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
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Forums: r/technology and r/Fauxmoi
| Financial Times: |
Lloyd's of London insurers have launched a product to cover companies for losses if sued over AI chatbot errors, with policies developed by YC-backed Armilla — Policies will pay out for costs such as legal fees and court damages if AI tools underperform — Simply sign up to the Artificial … | FinSMEs: |
Thoma Bravo invests $100M+ in HubSync, a Tennessee-based tax and accounting automation and client experience platform for accounting firms and tax professionals — HubSync, a Franklin, TN-based provider of a tax and accounting platform, received an over $100M Growth investment from Thoma Bravo.
More: Thoma Bravo and Nashville Business Journal
| Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: |
US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola's valuation to $1.25B, a drop of 80%+ from a 2021 peak of $7.3B, as the ride-hailing company loses market share in India — Vanguard had valued the Bhavish Aggarwal-led company at less than $2 billion ($1.88 billion) for the first time.
More: Financial Express, SiliconIndia.com, and YourStory
| Scott Macfarlane / CBS News: |
Sources: the Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI — The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
More: Committee on House … and Politico
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| Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
London-based StackOne, which develops tech to integrate SaaS products and AI agents with enterprise systems more efficiently, raised a $20M Series A led by GV — London-based StackOne has raised $20M (nearly €17.67M) in a Series A funding round. This brings the company's total raised capital to $24M.
More: FinSMEs, StackOne, Tech.eu, GV, EU-Startups, and SiliconANGLE
| Nicholas Kristof / New York Times: |
Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times — What goes through the minds of people working at porn companies profiting from videos of children being raped?| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
CMU researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types — On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts.| Erin Brodwin / Axios: |
TSOLife, whose software is in use in 1,300 senior living facilities in 47 US states, raised a $43M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $52M — TSOLife raised $43 million in Series B funds for home-grown senior living software, CEO David Sawyer tells Axios exclusively.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Amsterdam-based AppSignal, which develops an app monitoring tool that it says is used by 2,000+ organizations, raised a $22M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners — Application monitoring startup AppSignal B.V. said today it's looking to expand its market presence beyond Europe after closing …
More: AppSignal, AppSignal, Silicon Canals, The Fast Mode, and FinSMEs
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
The FTC pushes the enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14 — The Federal Trade Commission has delayed the start of a rule that aims to make the process of canceling subscriptions less of a nightmare.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D — - AI21 Labs is raising a $300 million Series D funding round to build its own LLMs. — It aims to reduce hallucinations in generative AI, which would enhance reliability for companies.
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