December 13, 2024news Sources: Walmart is leading a funding round of $300M+ alongside Ribbit for Walmart’s fintech venture, One, giving it a pre Sources: Walmart is leading a funding round of $300M+ alongside Ribbit for Walmart’s fintech venture, One, giving it a pre-money valuation of […]
December 13, 2024news In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can’t sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for Read More »
December 13, 2024news Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital for Affirm to underwrite short-term installment loans of between four and six months (Leslie Picker/CNBC) Affirm Holdings is getting its largest-ever capital commitment with a new partnership from private credit firm Sixth Street. Read More »
December 13, 2024news Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with added controls for access and data management, as part of Agentspace (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Google’s bringing its viral NotebookLM app to the enterprise via a new service for Google Cloud customers, Agentspace. Read More »
December 13, 2024news How Anthropic’s Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic (Kevin Roose/New York Times) How Anthropic’s Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and […]
December 13, 2024news Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for marketing, HR, software development, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research) Google Cloud launched Agentspace, which is designed to create and deploy AI agents, and a version of NotebookLM for the enterprise. With […]
December 13, 2024news Musk says the SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or “face charges on numerous counts” (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) Oh Gary, how could you do this to me? Read More »
December 13, 2024news Sources: Apple will begin producing AirPods in India for the first time around Q1, 2025; a Foxconn unit is already making AirPods on a trial basis in Hyderabad (Bloomberg) Sources: Apple will begin producing AirPods in India for the first time around Q1, 2025; a Foxconn unit is already making AirPods […]
December 12, 2024news A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% use TikTok daily, 50% use Instagram, and 20% use Facebook; 17% use X, down from 23% in 2022 (Pew Research Center) Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they’re on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by […]
December 12, 2024news Microsoft’s new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the “sensitive information” filter enabled (Avram Piltch/Tom’s Hardware) Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it. Read More »
