Apple looks to resume talks for Apple Pay launch in India
Apple plans to engage with NPCI and other authorities in India in the coming weeks for the launch of its payments service Apple Pay in...
India ordered an investigation into Byju’s days before auditor and board members resigned, report says
India’s corporate affairs ministry ordered an investigation into edtech startup Byju’s last week, television news channel CNBC-TV18 reported Friday, further complicating matters at the most...
Lithuania’s capital Vilnius to get ‘Europe’s largest tech campus,’ costing €100M
Lithuania is vying to become one of the major European tech hubs, bolstered by a growing number of so-called “unicorn” startups and governmental efforts to...
Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it’s being “deployed as surveillance”
Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who...
Warming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares
The late-stage startup market is sorting out how to value startups that had raised capital during the previous venture boom — Tiger Global Management recently...
AWS launches $100M program to fund generative AI initiatives
Amazon, keen to avoid being left behind in the hyper-competitive AI race, is launching a new program to bolster customers and partners focused on generative...
Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs
Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” has taken the wraps off the large language model powering its Pi conversational...
TikTok’s COO is leaving their role at the company
TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head...
Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital...
India joins NASA’s Artemis Accords for collaborative lunar exploration
India has finally agreed to join the Artemis Accords, a NASA-led initiative to work together with other countries on space exploration and make a return...