November 25, 2024news Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition (Chris Welch/The Verge) Giving up some control in the face of competition. Read More »
November 25, 2024news Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, called Model Context Protocol (MCP). Read […]
November 25, 2024news Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition (Chris Welch/The Verge) Giving up some control in the face of competition. Read More »
November 25, 2024news Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs […]
November 25, 2024news Tel Aviv As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a startup called Appcharge […]
November 25, 2024news The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky” (Financial Times) Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk’s X is accused of not declaring user numbers Read More »
November 25, 2024news Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses monetize video content, is being taken private in a deal valued at $233 million. Read […]
November 25, 2024news The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses (Peter Chapman/Bloomberg) The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving […]
November 22, 2024news Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, […]
November 21, 2024news Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users’ devices WhatsApp announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out voice message transcripts to let users read voice messages. Read More »
