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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist | TechCrunch
A new app called Butterflies is aiming to create a social network where humans and AIs interact with each other through posts and DMs.
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A former Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs
By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copyright
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Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube
By Sara Fischer / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
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Apple refuses to notarize emulator apps
This apparently happened just before WWDC, so I missed it, but it deserves everyone’s attention. Apple has rejected the UTM emulator app, not...
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Developers say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators, for alternative app stores in EU, possibly in violation of DMA rules
By Jason Snell / Six Colors. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed "turnkey" option (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
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HPE unveils Private Cloud AI, broad Nvidia partnership aimed at genAI workloads
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads. N...
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HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads, coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed “turnkey” option
By Larry Dignan / Constellation Research. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company
Nvidia shares have multiplied by more than nine-fold since the end of 2022, and the chipmaker surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable publi...
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Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world
By Kif Leswing / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
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Documents Show How Musk’s X Plans to Become the Next Venmo
State license applications give new insight into the company’s plans, as well as its financial woes during the Elon era.
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Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine | TechCrunch
Genspark, a new search engine, is taking on startups like Perplexity with its AI-driven, summarized search results.
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AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-suspends-work-on-next-high-end-headset-focused-on-releasing-cheaper-model-in-late-2025
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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources say Apple still plans a cheaper model by the end of 2025
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases | TechCrunch
SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.
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London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports (David Pierce/The Verge)
The Verge
Xreal’s new gadget is a phone-sized Android tablet just for your AR glasses
The Beam Pro is a camera and a controller, but it’s not a smartphone.
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Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal
By David Pierce / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-company-huntress-raises-150-million-in-series-d-funding-d76a04f6?st=ctfrhm386o7a9kn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation
By James Rundle / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Blackstone plans to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom in a ~$1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
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Blackstone Taps Japan’s Romance Manga Fans in $1.7 Billion Deal
Blackstone Inc. is betting on the popularity of Japanese manga with a $1.7 billion deal to buy a digital provider of romance comics.
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Blackstone plans to acquire Japanese digital romance comic provider Infocom in a $1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date
By Lisa Du / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/autonomous-trucking-startup-waabi-raises-200-mln-2024-06-18/
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Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025
By Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon (Published 2024)
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
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Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing
By Noam Scheiber / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of "very serious" issues under the EU's DMA, and the conclusions of an investigation will arrive "hopefully soon" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
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Apple has 'very serious' issues under sweeping EU digital rules, competition chief says
In March, the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, opened a probe into Apple, under the new Digital Markets Act legislation.
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Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the EU
By Arjun Kharpal / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (Ann-Marie Alcántara/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/can-you-replace-google-search-with-reddit-i-tried-it-for-a-week-ea1f36c5?st=dnyht7vzp8jzvng&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more
By Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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