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Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M

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Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. Big Tech Inc. Zack has more.

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Fast-charge EV battery maker StoreDot pulls in $80M led led by Vietnam’s VinFast

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StoreDot , the Israeli next-generation battery technology startup touting an “extreme fast charging” (XFC) battery for electric vehicles, has secured the first close of its latest funding round led by Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast. The Series D round is due to close at up to $80 million.

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Operational Technology Threats in Automotive: What You Need to Know

Tenable

When it comes to automotive manufacturing, industrial control systems (ICS) may be the weak link inviting new types of attacks. Legacy ICS in the automotive industry has proven to be durable, but this durability has become a security risk in today’s connected world. Cybersecurity challenges in auto manufacturing.

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PQShield raises $20M for its quantum-ready, future-proof cryptographic security solutions

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Quantum computing promises to unlock a new wave of processing power for the most complex calculations, but that could prove to be just as harmful as it is helpful: security specialists warn that malicious hackers will be able to use quantum machines to break through today’s standards in cryptography and encryption.

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Helm.ai snags $31M to scale its ‘unsupervised’ autonomous driving software

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launched to push the technology forward with a new approach. sells its software to various OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry to help them “achieve software differentiation with high-end ADAS and L4 solutions,” according to Voroninski. Brandon Freeman, founder of the Freeman Group, is joining the Helm.ai

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American Honda IT to fuel innovation with generative AI

CIO

The completion of such transformative EV and hydrogen fuel cell engineering — amid uncertainty about which technology will prevail as the industry standard — reflects the one constant American Honda’s VP of IT Bob Brizendine has confronted throughout his 36 years with the company: an ever-changing, winding road that never slows down. “We

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An Intelligent Future for Manufacturing

CIO

The integration of ICT into manufacturing technology is transforming the industry to meet these demands and sustain competitiveness in the long term. Digital technologies are fast becoming indispensable for enabling innovation, driving modern R&D, and streamlining production and supply.