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2024-11-13 20:42:00
Red Hat is acquiring AI optimization startup Neural Magic.
Red Hat, the open source software firm owned by IBM, is acquiring Neural Magic, a startup that optimizes AI models to run faster on commodity processors and GPUs.
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2024-11-13 20:18:40
Particle launches an AI news app designed to support publishers, rather than just taking their content.
Today, the media business isn't necessarily seeing AI as much of an friend - a technology that has already been used to replace reporters with AI-generated copy
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2024-11-13 20:14:22
Here’s how to create a custom emoji using Apple’s Genmoji, an intelligent feature.
Apple introduced its new iOS 18.1 operating software updates, which brought a bunch of new features under Apple Intelligence
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2024-11-13 20:04:32
Anysphere acquires Supermaven to strengthen its Cursor platform.
AI-based code editor Cursor's maker, Anysphere has acquired AI-based coding assistant Supermaven for an undisclosed amount.
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2024-11-13 19:56:18
Generative disinformation is real—but you’re likely not the target, warns a deepfake-tracking nonprofit.
Many feared that disinformation and perhaps even the outcome of the 2024 election might be touched, and perhaps even decided, by AI-generated alternatives.
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2024-11-13 19:53:11
Apple is reportedly launching a wall-mounted smart home tablet in 2025, complete with AI capabilities.
Apple is preparing to launch a new smart home hub, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
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2024-11-13 19:50:53
Perplexity introduces ads to its platform.
AI search engine Perplexity, powered by AI, is experimenting with beginning to insert ads into its platform.
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2024-11-13 02:48:23
Meta shares new insights into its evolving feed algorithms and how it’s leveraging AI.
A helpful summary of Meta’s different content ranking systems.
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2024-11-12 21:07:55
AI Platform for Analyzing Creative Advertising Secures $5.1M in Funding from Investors, Including a16z
In this increasingly AI-driven age, creative and media teams will need to use the technology to up their game in analyzing creative assets and A/B testing - or someone else will just get there first.
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2024-11-12 20:03:51
Meta’s Ray-Ban Stories Now Enable Users to Make Calls and Send Messages via WhatsApp
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today the company is introducing additional hands-free features for its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses.
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2024-11-12 19:28:16
Meta Partners with US and UK Universities to Pilot VR in Education, Develops Digital Twin "Metaversities" in Europe
The latest move in an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) into education, Meta has unveiled a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K.
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2024-11-11 22:06:59
The impact of TikTok's bans in other countries could provide a glimpse into what might happen in the U.S.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill that would install a ban on TikTok if owner ByteDance does not sell the application.
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2024-11-11 21:56:06
Anthropic has hired Instagram co-founder as its new head of product.
Mike Krieger, one of Instagram's founders-and, more recently, cofounder of personalized news app Artifact, acquired just last week by Yahoo's corporate parent-is now joining Anthropic as the company's first chief product officer.
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2024-11-11 21:06:24
Facebook and Twitter are still struggling to contain the Buffalo shooting video.
Ten people were killed this past weekend in what is described as a racist attack on a Buffalo, New York supermarket.
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2024-11-11 20:12:30
Encore is an AI-driven search engine designed specifically for thrift shopping.
Former Apple engineer Alex Ruber and former Twitter and Asana engineer Parth Chopra met for the first time through Y Combinator's founder match platform, later meeting in person at a thrift store for shopping.
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2024-11-10 18:18:44
OpenAI is reportedly working on new strategies to address the slowdown in AI advancements.
It wasn't going to be as huge a leap forward as its predecessors, The Information reported this week, based on what internal employee testers said about the code-named Orion
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2024-11-10 02:58:18
Meta is assisting the US government in integrating its Llama AI models.
Indeed, Meta is collaborating with the U.S. military to explore potential applications for AI.
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2024-11-10 02:56:21
Meta is working on an AI system designed to detect when teens are lying about their age.
The system will employ advanced methods to verify users' ages.
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2024-11-09 21:51:47
Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta for $1 billion last year, has spun out with a new valuation of $250 million.
Meta's big experiment in creating an enterprise-ready customer service platform has run its course: The parent of Facebook has formally spun out Kustomer, the CRM start-up it bought last year for roughly $1 billion.
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2024-11-09 21:48:35
Microsoft AI has opened a new London hub, led by former Inflection and DeepMind scientist Jordan Hoffmann.
Microsoft today announced a new London-based hub that will serve as the cornerstone for a newly formed consumer AI division.
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2024-11-09 21:45:11
What does Mark Zuckerberg’s shirt say?
Three years ago, the big day of Mark Zuckerberg was a bust. At his company's annual developer conference — then known as Facebook Connect — he rolled out his grand ambition to make his trillion-dollar social network "a metaverse company.
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2024-11-09 21:42:02
Instagram is reportedly developing a customizable "AI friend" feature.
The new "AI friend" feature of Instagram would be customised by users based on their choice and then conversed with, based on screenshots that app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shared.
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2024-11-09 21:39:30
Meta has updated its avatars, introducing new body shapes, hairstyles, and clothing options.
Meta just announced new avatar body shapes, improved hair and clothing textures, and now over one billion avatars have been created across platforms.
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2024-11-09 21:37:20
Google has announced Gemma 2, a 27-billion-parameter version of its open model, set to launch.
In a flurry of announcements at the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google expanded its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta's Llama and Mistral's open models.
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2024-11-09 21:26:45
Brave's Leo AI assistant is now available for Android users.
Brave is rolling out its AI assistant, Leo, to all of its Android users. Leo enables users to be able to ask questions and translate pages, summarize pages, create content, and much more.
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2024-11-09 21:23:04
Microsoft has begun paying publishers for content featured by its Copilot AI.
Microsoft will cover content displayed in Copilot Daily, a new feature of the Copilot AI-powered cross-platform assistant announced Tuesday along with several other upgrades to Copilot.
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2024-11-09 21:12:45
Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite for Android.
Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite, its lightweight stripped-down version of Messenger, the company
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2024-11-09 21:09:02
Apple has entered the competition to develop an AI icon that resonates and makes sense for users.
It's been an exciting week for the AI community, with Apple joining Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, among others in the long-standing competition to find an icon that even remotely suggests AI to users.
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2024-11-09 21:00:27
Meta has announced that it is experimenting with AI-powered chat features on WhatsApp and Messenger.
No company is immune to the generative AI wave and everybody wants in. The latest entrant is Meta, which is testing AI-powered tools for its products.
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2024-11-09 20:57:11
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads experienced a major outage during Super Tuesday, affecting users across the platforms.
Reports are flowing that quite a few of the top social apps in Meta, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, are down across Tuesday morning.
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