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SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valuation

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PRIMECAP Management Company, Reinvent Capital, XN, Fidelity Management and Research LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, as well as strategic investments from Uber, PACCAR and Volvo Group. Securities and Exchange Commission. The trio have formed three SPACs, or blank-check companies.

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

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So says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Among their biggest concerns: exposing intellectual property through publicly available generative AI models, revealing the personal data of users to third-party vendors or service providers, and securing the AI itself from criminal hackers.

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Why EV startups should’ve hit the brakes before merging with a SPAC

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The blank-check boom that made real many electric vehicle manufacturers’ dreams of going public may be nearing a close. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. One such company, Faraday Future, is even in danger of being delisted, according to a filing with the U.S.

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CIOs sharpen tech strategies to support hybrid work

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For example, Foundry’s 2022 State of the CIO survey shows that IT executives are investing in cybersecurity improvements and collaboration platforms better suited to their organizational needs as well as network reliability and performance improvements.

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Nation-Blanking DDoS Attacks Launched By Individuals Now Proven Able To Take Entire Nation’s Off The Net

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Conversations with researchers throughout the community and analysis of motives of recent large attacks like that one lead us to conclude that these large attacks are not the result of nation states attacking our infrastructure. The attack was brief, leading some researchers to conclude it was a test. Someone is doing this for kicks.

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Vetted lands $15M for AI that helps shoppers find top products and deals

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Vetted , the startup formerly known as Lustre, today announced that it secured $15 million to fund development of its AI-powered platform for product reviews. “We founded Vetted because we felt that shopping online has become an overwhelming and frankly anti-consumer experience,” Kearney told TechCrunch via email.

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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

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A recent Forrester Research report predicts that the segment will start to flatten as soon as 2023 as companies shift to broader automation solutions. Our shortcut database is encrypted, and shortcut text has an additional layer of encryption to provide even better security and privacy.” There’s evidence to support this.

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