a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350 million and doubles its valuation to $4 billion.

[ad_1] AI startup EliseAI announced Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a valuation of $4 billion, double its valuation when it raised its Series E last August. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures. Founded in 2017, EliseAI automates management and operational tasks for housing and healthcare companies. The company … Read more

Your car and mobile apps are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies.

[ad_1] Built with connected car technologies like WiFi and GPS, modern cars collect massive amounts of data about their owners. And according to a new study conducted by researchers at Northeastern University, that data doesn’t stay private. This conclusion is not new. There have been numerous investigations and lawsuits exposing how driving data is collected … Read more

America.gov gets really weird when you ask about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

[ad_1] The US government launched its own AI chatbot on Tuesday – do we have to call it an AI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers working on the chatbot undoubtedly knew that the Internet, as a publicly available, government-hosted artificial intelligence tool, would be able to remedy this. The government has partnered with Google and … Read more

After years on the sidelines, Apple Pay is finally launching in India

[ad_1] As first reported by TechCrunch, Apple began rolling out Apple Pay in India on Tuesday. Its first banking partner is Axis Bank, the country’s third-largest private sector lender. The move brings the company’s payments service to the world’s most populous country after years of delays in a market dominated by the state-backed United Payments … Read more