Google fires employees, Tesla fires Supercharger team, UnitedHealthcare reveals security flaws

Welcome everyone to Week in Review (WiR). This is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter summarizing his week in technology. This edition is a little bittersweet for me – it’s the last one (for a while, anyway). We will soon shift our focus to a new newsletter focused on AI. I am very much looking forward. stay tuned!

Now, on to the news: This week’s Google Lay off staff from Flutter, Dart, and Python teams A few weeks before the annual I/O developer conference. A total of 200 people were laid off across Google’s “core” teams, including those in app platforms and other engineering roles.

Elsewhere, Tesla CEO Elon Musk disbanded the company’s team responsible for overseeing the Supercharger network Despite recent wins over major automakers like Ford and General Motors amid new layoffs. Since the cuts are complete, Musk suggested in an email that they will force Tesla to slow the expansion of its Supercharger network.

Andrew Whitty, CEO of United Healthcare, said: told a House subcommittee. The ransomware group that hacked US medical technology giant Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, used a set of stolen credentials to access Change Healthcare systems that were not protected by multi-factor authentication.Last week, United Healthcare was attacked by hackers. They stole the health data of “a significant portion of America.”

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Google News news

Hallucinations, hallucinations: OpenAI faces other privacy complaints in the EU.This was submitted by the Privacy Rights Nonprofit night On behalf of individual whistleblowers – Targets the inability of the AI ​​chatbot ChatGPT to correct false information it generates about individuals.

Get out of Sam’s Club: Sam’s Club customers who pay at the register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now leave the store without having to reconfirm their purchase. technology,announced It is currently being rolled out to 20% of Sam’s Club stores at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

TikTok circumvents Apple’s rules: TikTok is offering some users a link to a website where they can buy coins used to tip digital creators on the platform. Typically, these coins must be purchased through in-app purchases and require a 30% fee to be paid to Apple, but this suggests TikTok may be trying to circumvent Apple’s App Store rules. are doing.

NIST’s GenAI platform: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that develops and tests technology for the U.S. government, businesses, and the broader public, is launching a new program to evaluate generative AI technologies for text, text, and more. NIST GenAI has been launched. Image generation AI.

Gettil draws out the following: Gettil, the nimble commerce giant, is exiting the US, UK and Europe to focus on its native Turkey. The company, once valued at nearly $12 billion, said the move will affect thousands of gig and full-time workers.

Google News analysis

Inside Techstars’ “Cold War”: Dom’s brilliant report begins a year of financial losses and staff cuts at startup accelerator Techstars. The company’s CEO, Mael Gavet, has been a controversial force for change.

AI-powered coding: This is an evolution of GitHub’s AI-powered coding assistant Copilot into a more general tool, which was introduced recently. co-pilot chatallows developers to ask questions about their code in natural language.

Self-driving car racing:Tim Stevens dives into an Abu Dhabi racing event pitting self-driving cars against F1 drivers.