Nuclear startup Oklo has signed a massive deal with data center operator Switch, but caveats abound. The new agreement would see Oklo building enough small modular reactors (SMR) by 2044 to generate 12 gigawatts of electricity for Switch’s data centers, which today serve a wide range of companies, including Google, Nvidia, Tesla, Paypal, JP Morgan Chase, and others. Oklo would build and operate the plants, selling power through Switch to its data center customers. The Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup still hasn’t received approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after having its previous application denied in 2022. Plus, the agreement is…
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Stellantis is tapping the brakes on the all-electric Ram 1500 REV truck and will push its launch into 2026, the company said Wednesday, citing slowing industry demand for half-ton battery electric pickups. The automaker had originally planned to begin selling the electric truck to customers in the first half of 2025. The automaker will instead focus on its Ram 1500 Ramcharger, an extended-range truck that gets an estimated 690 miles of range through a novel—but not unheard of—approach of combining a battery with a gas generator. The swap illustrates a broader trend among legacy automakers grappling with slower-than-expected demand for…
The U.S. state of Nebraska has sued the healthtech giant Change Healthcare over a series of alleged security failings that resulted in a historical data breach exposing the sensitive health information of at least 100 million Americans. In a complaint filed this week, Nebraska’s attorney general Mike Hilgers claims UnitedHealth-owned Change Healthcare failed to implement proper security measures, leading to what he describes as a “historic” data breach in terms of impact and magnitude. This comes after it was revealed in October that more than 100 million Americans had their sensitive medical data stolen during a February ransomware attack on…
Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company’s original app allowed users to collect content from blogs, news websites, and traditional social media services like Facebook and Twitter in order to create curated magazines, its new app called Surf, launching into invite-only beta today, will instead allow users to browse and explore the open social web. This includes services like Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as other public web content like blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more. To work, Surf supports open protocols like RSS, which provides feeds…
YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — especially if videos with topics breaking news or current events — starting in India. The company noted that it will also start enforcing stricter rules against clickbait titles and thumbnails in the coming months. The enforcement will include YouTube removing such videos without issuing a strike against the creator of the channel at the beginning of this program. Last year, the company launched a program for creators to take an educational training course to wipe out any warnings against their channels. “We’re strengthening our efforts to tackle…
Once, not long ago, booking a table at a hot new restaurant didn’t entail a midnight dash to Resy. Truly, we didn’t know how good we had it then. Hours-long lines out the door are now the norm, not the exception, in major cities from New York to Los Angeles. Evan Felcher and Mattia Ros were tired of the stress, waitlists, and the hassle that come along with modern dining. After the two friends, who’d met in college as tennis rivals, reconnected in NYC over jobs in finance (and a professed love for the city’s culinary scene), they started brainstorming…
Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. With Lens, Avara is building a decentralized protocol that could serve as the infrastructure for social and consumer apps. This funding announcement comes a few weeks after Lens unveiled a completely overhauled version of its protocol, Lens v3. Originally built on the Polygon blockchain, consumer apps that are using Lens v2 include NFT creation and sharing app Zora, Twitter-like platforms Hey and Kaira, and subcommunity-focused app Orb. Why are crypto developers still trying to create the next big social network? It…
File transfer service WeTransfer is now limiting users to 10 transfers per month with its free plan. The company is already applying the new limit to users, as per a support page. At the same time, WeTransfer is adding some perks to the free plan, including increasing the overall file transfer limit from 2GB to 3GB, adding unlimited portals (collaborative folders to work with clients) and reviews, password protection for all transfers. It is also removing a 5% fee on paid transfer, a program that allowed users to sell files on the platform. The company, which was acquired by Italy-based Bending…
Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it’s a reference to how long it’s taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union. The fine that’s — finally — been issued under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is for €4.75 million ($5 million at current exchange rates). Netflix, meanwhile, raked in around $33.7 billion in annual revenue in 2023 alone. The Dutch data protection authority (DPA) concluded that the streaming giant failed to adequately inform customers what it does with their data, which…
Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results.Many queries no longer lead to click-throughs, and even when users click, it is hard for companies to get more context on searches made within apps like ChatGPT or Perplexity. The answer to this problem is sometimes called generative engine optimization, or GEO, in a nod to SEO. “Some call it AI search visibility optimization, which is a bit longer, but I believe is a bit more accurate,” said Otterly.AI CEO Thomas Peham (on the right in the image above). Like…
