January 6, 2025news Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn’t say how it calculate MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable (Dade Hayes/Deadline) Tubi continued to gain traction in 2024, surpassing 97 million monthly active users and 10 billion streaming hours. Read More »
January 6, 2025news Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it may face delisting or index removals (Bloomberg) Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it […]
January 6, 2025news Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Latest AI Amazon Read More »
January 6, 2025news Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit (Todd Spangler/Variety) Disney announced a deal with pay-TV provider Fubo to combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo’s operations in a joint venture, ending […]
January 6, 2025news Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders’ personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don’t pay, throwing China’s funding ecosystem into crisis (Financial Times) Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding Read More »
January 6, 2025news Avataar debuts Velocity, an AI tool that generates product videos based on a product link, and says HP, Victoria’s Secret, Lowe’s, and others are using the tool (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Generative AI models have reached a baseline capability of producing at least a passable video from a single image or short sentence. […]
January 3, 2025news An in-depth look at Elon Musk’s criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control (Molly White/Citation Needed) The world’s richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free […]
January 3, 2025news Apple Intelligence, with features like Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 18.2, requires 7GB of storage, compared to 4GB in iOS 18.1 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) Apple Intelligence launched with 4GB of storage requirements, but now that number has almost doubled already—and adds up with each device. Read […]
January 3, 2025news Meta says the viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 as part of “an early experiment” with AI characters, and it is deleting them (Jason Koebler/404 Media) The Meta AI profiles everyone is mad about are old, were a colossal failure, and many are already dead. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Apple Intelligence, with features like Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 18.2, requires 7GB of storage, compared to 4GB in iOS 18.1 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) Apple Intelligence launched with 4GB of storage requirements, but now that number has almost doubled already—and adds up with each device. Read […]
