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 […]
January 3, 2025news Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Apple Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more (Victoria Song/The Verge) Strava subscribers will get Fitness Plus for three months. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann’s alleged 4Chan posts and Dittmann’s X Spaces appearances suggest he might be a fake online persona used by Musk himself (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Either way, it’s uncomfortably weird. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters) By Alexander Marrow / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
January 3, 2025news Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters) By Alexander Marrow / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
