Meta begins rolling out TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads globally, following a test that started earlier this month — Threads is widely rolling out a desktop site redesign that lets you customize your homepage with a series of feeds, similar to TweetDeck.
OpenAI disrupted five influence operations in the past three months that accessed its products to covertly manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes — Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.
Source: cloud GPU provider CoreWeave, which was last valued at $19B and raised ~$10B in equity and debt over the past year, plans an IPO in H1 2025 — Cloud computing startup CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom, has been on a fundraising spree …
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids ages 7+, with games, messaging, and features for parents like location sharing — The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google's newest Wear OS device and meant to encourage kids (ages 7+) to be healthy through games, while also serving …
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X — Yann LeCun and Elon Musk got into it on X this weekend, exposing key disagreements on AI risks dividing the tech world.
Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle for use during the EU elections, in a bid to address EU concerns over Meta's plan to shut down the tool in August 2024 — Meta Platforms (META.O) has added safety features to its misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle for use during European Parliament elections …
A look at the growing importance of ads for video streaming services, as Antenna says that 56% of new subscribers chose the cheaper ad-supported tier in Q1 2024 — Ads are here, there — almost everywhere — on streaming services now. — Not long ago, streaming TV came with a promise …
Dating apps are trying to woo Gen Z women by boosting moderation tools and more; Tinder has consistently lost MAUs since 2021 and paid subs fell under 10M in Q1 — Gen Z is a priority for Tinder and Bumble but threats and unsolicited material from potential suitors often turn users off
Researchers find that GPT-4 outperforms human analysts in predicting future corporate earnings growth even when provided only with financial statements — Researchers from the University of Chicago have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can conduct financial statement analysis …
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties — Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs — The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.
A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft's Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default — Microsoft's announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking …
Sources: a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital commit to joining xAI's new funding round, in which the company seeks to raise ~$6B at an $18B valuation — Billionaire's artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower
Sources: Helsing, which provides AI tools to militaries, is raising a $400M+ Series C led by General Catalyst at a ~$4B valuation, after raising $200M+ in 2023 — The Munich-based company is raising at least $400 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, sources tell Forbes.
A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK's July election — The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets …
Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the NYSE, agreed to pay $10M to settle SEC allegations that it failed to immediately tell the agency about a hack in 2021 — The SEC said that in April 2021 ICE learned that its virtual private network had been hacked by a “threat actor.”
Doc: WhatsApp staff warned of traffic analysis flaws where attackers may reveal who is in a conversation; Meta calls them theoretical and not unique to WhatsApp — In March, WhatsApp's security team issued an internal warning to their colleagues: Despite the software's powerful encryption …
Coactive, which provides AI tools to categorize visual data, raised a $30M Series B co-led by Emerson Collective and Cherryrock Capital at a $200M valuation — The startup has raised $30 million, quadrupling its valuation to $200 million, signaling investors' interest in enterprise AI tools that aren't generative in nature.
Microsoft announces the general availability of its Phi-3 models, including Phi-3-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model that will be embedded on all Copilot+ PCs — Microsoft is making more investments in the development of small language models. At its Build developer conference …
Farcaster, a blockchain-based social media project built on Ethereum, raised $150M in a round led by Paradigm and says it has 350K paid sign-ups — Dan Romero's Farcaster made waves earlier this year with the introduction of “Frames,” a feature allowing apps to run within posts, so users don't have to click off to another site.
Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images — Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors.
Around 58 countries now offer a digital nomad visa, as governments compete with each other to attract talent; the number of US digital nomads hit 17.3M in 2023 — Nearly 60 countries are offering remote visas, many with an eye to making visitors permanent residents
Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI — Microsoft, Meta and Google have released new versions with fewer ‘parameters’ that are cheaper to build and train
At the 2024 Upfronts, streaming services dominated with Amazon Prime Video and Netflix making their debut, and live sports and ad tech were given more attention — Advertising executives who entered Radio City Music Hall on Monday for NBCUniversal's upfront presentation were greeted …
Memo: Didi co-founder Jean Liu steps down as president and board director, positions she has held since December 2014, and will become a “permanent partner” — - Liu will become permanent partner, internal letter says — Company's management will no longer have position of president
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
