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Happy Google Day! A wall of interesting news has come out of the search-and-everything giant at its I/O event. Christine summarized everything Google has announced at I/O so far, so that’s a good start.
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- Big spender: Connie spoke to Sound Ventures’ Effie Epstein to get the scoop on where three lucky companies received a large chunk of the venture capital firm’s new AI fund.
- Identified flying object: Darrell reports on Vast and SpaceX’s plan to launch the first commercial space station into orbit by 2025. Ariadives deep into Vast in the Big Tech section.
- You have the world in the PaLM of your hand: Google launched PaLM 2, the next generation major language model. Frederick writes that “PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool and act as the base model for most of the search engine giant’s new AI features. See what we have so far in Google I/O news in the Big Tech section.
Startups and VC
Nuro, an autonomous delivery startup, is in the midst of a restructuring that will lead to layoffs and a shift of resources from commercial activities to R&D. Kirsten reports. Nuro declined to share how many of its approximately 1,100 employees will be affected. Employees are expected to know who will be fired by the end of the week.
Natasha L reports that Clearview has been fined again, this time in France, for failing to comply with privacy orders. Whether Clearview will ever pay any of these fines remains an open question, as the US-based company does not cooperate with EU regulators.
There’s also a handful for you:
3 key metrics for cybersecurity product managers
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Cybersecurity product managers typically measure conversion rates, detection accuracy, and usage/engagement to get customer insights, but these metrics “may not be what they seem,” writes Ross Haleliuk, an investor who is also head of product at LimaCharlie.io.
“Context is very important, and the realities of different organizations, regions, cultures and market segments have a major impact on what can be measured and what actions can be taken based on these observations.”
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Big Tech Inc.
It’s Google I/O Day and our team has written at least 30 stories to deliver all the goods for you lovely readers. You can check out the full download on the dedicated Google I/O 2023 event page, but here are some tidbits:
Yes, we’ve got some non-Google news too:
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