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Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield

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Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield

Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.

Connie Loizos 4 months ago

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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Marina Temkin 4 months ago

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Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

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Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It's 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked,...

Cindy Zackney 4 months ago

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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

Amanda Silberling 4 months ago

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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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A look at Tim Cook’s 15-year legacy as CEO of Apple

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A look at Tim Cook’s 15-year legacy as CEO of Apple

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.

Aisha Malik 4 months ago

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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says

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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says

The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.

Amanda Silberling 4 months ago

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Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra — and it’s actually good

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Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra — and it’s actually good

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

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AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs

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AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs

Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.

Lauren Forristal 4 months ago

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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to helping ransomware gang

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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to helping ransomware gang

A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 4 months ago

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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

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Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs

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Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs

The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

Kirsten Korosec 4 months ago

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Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO

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Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.

Ram Iyer 4 months ago

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What’s the key to better vegan cheese? Microbreweries, one startup says

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What’s the key to better vegan cheese? Microbreweries, one startup says

AuX Labs says it has found a better way to make vegan cheese that tastes and feels like the real thing — and costs the same.

Tim De Chant 4 months ago

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Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6-12 year olds

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Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6-12 year olds

Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth...

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists

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GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists

AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

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Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation

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Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation

Yelp said that users can ask questions about a restaurant and place an order or book a table in one conversation

Ivan Mehta 4 months ago

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Blue Energy raises $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards

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Blue Energy raises $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards

By building reactors in shipyards, Blue Energy says it will tame nuclear power's cost problems, giving it access to cheaper financing.

Tim De Chant 4 months ago

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Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?

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Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?

After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off his role as Apple CEO to John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering.

Amanda Silberling 4 months ago

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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.

Julie Bort 4 months ago

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