👛 Wallet wars: On the heels of the news that Apple would allow third-party developers to access its near-field-communication technology, the backbone of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, PayPal looks poised to take advantage. Read more
🤐 Silence is scary: Tech giant Cisco confirmed in an SEC filing this week that it will cut another 7% of its workforce in September. Which employees will be affected by this upcoming cut? We don't know and neither do the Cisco employees who have to wait a month to see if they still have their job. Read more
🧑⚖️ Ticketmaster troubles: The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster back in May that accused the ticket conglomerate of being a monopoly. This week, 10 more state attorneys general joined the suit. Read more
🚘 Whoa, Waymo: Robotaxi company Waymo announced today that it's giving more than 100,000 rides a week in its self-driving taxis. That is a big jump from the 50,000 figures reported earlier this summer by both Google and Waymo. Read more
⚙️Taking on Nvidia and betting on transformers with Gavin Uberti from Etched: In this week's episode of Found, Becca and Dom sit down with Gavin Uberti, co-founder and CEO of Etched, an AI chip startup focusing on developing specialized chips. Gavin shares the bold bet his startup is making on transformer models for AI chips, aiming to take on industry giant Nvidia. Listen here
