Google announced a free tool for helping publishers make money online from surveys, micropayments and other offerings, a sign that Google is responding to publisher complaints that new AI features like AI Overviews on Search are driving down traffic to publisher sites. The tool, called ... Read more ›
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Creator management firms help creators ink brand deals, but they typically don’t also have production facilities to help creators launch projects, such as recurring shows made for YouTube or TikTok.Scott Dunn and Chris Gera are taking a different approach with their new startup Unicorn, which is part talent management firm and part content studio. The two co-founders, who officially launched the company earlier this month, split the ownership rights of... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is hiring four researchers from OpenAI as part of an aggressive push to recruit talent and catch up in artificial intelligence, after stumbles over the past year. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai are joining Meta from OpenAI’s office in Zurich, Beyer said on ... Read more ›
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TikTok and Instagram are working on versions of their apps for connected TVs following YouTube’s growth in the living room, The Information reported. The social media giants see an opportunity to capture some of the ad dollars moving to the streaming TV market. TV apps would give Instagram ... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence is handling between 30% and 50% of the work at Salesforce, automating functions like software engineering and customer service, co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff said in an interview with Bloomberg. Benioff’s comments are the latest sign that technology executives are ... Read more ›
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Rejoice, couch potatoes. TikTok and Instagram, following YouTube’s lead, are working on ways to make it easier for viewers to watch videos from their apps on TV screens. The social media giants see an opportunity to grab some of the ad dollars flowing to the streaming TV market. Meta Platforms’ leaders have said they are planning to develop a version of the Instagram app designed for TVs, according to a... Read more ›
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CoreWeave is in fresh talks to buy Core Scientific, the Wall Street Journal reported, after the AI cloud provider unsuccessfully bid for the data infrastructure company a year ago. Core Scientific had a market value of around $3.7 billion as of Wednesday close, after the stock had been down 12% ... Read more ›
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Since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, businesses have envisioned generative AI creating not just chatbots, but also automated tools capable of complex, multi-step tasks like managing retail returns, generating research reports, and planning travel. This spring, new open-source protocols emerged to facilitate AI agent collaboration. Google introduced the A2A Protocol, while the AGNTCY collective—founded by Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo—launched an infrastructure framework for agent-to-agent collaboration. During a vi Read more ›
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As if OpenAI isn’t fighting enough battles, the startup is now eyeing a new front line: productivity apps currently dominated by Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s Workspace.As my colleagues reported this week, OpenAI has been prototyping a new tool within ChatGPT that would let multiple people collaborate on documents and communicate with each other, as well as with the AI. Read more ›
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Tesla executive and top Elon Musk lieutenant Omead Afshar has left the carmaker, Bloomberg News reported, citing anonymous sources. Afshar oversaw sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe, the report said. Tesla’s sales have dipped in both regions, in part due to ... Read more ›
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Chains of thought, the “reasoning” steps that many AI models take before delivering their final answer to a query, offer AI developers a precious window into their models’ decision-making. That’s why Google faced a backlash from its users earlier this month when it followed the lead of OpenAI and Anthropic by deciding to hide its models’ chains of thought, showing a summary instead.But even if users could read the raw... Read more ›
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The latest round of U.S. chip export controls may have curbed DeepSeek’s rise, at least for now. DeepSeek’s highly anticipated upcoming large language model, R2, may not be as quickly and extensively adopted in China as its predecessor, the wildly popular R1, due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in the country, according to employees of major Chinese cloud service providers that offer DeepSeek’s models to enterprise customers. The... Read more ›
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Meta did not violate copyright law by training its Llama language models on copyrighted books, a U.S. district court for Northern California ruled Wednesday. Authors including Richard Kadrey, Ta-Nehisi Coates and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had sued Meta for downloading their books ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is on a hot streak. Its stock has soared in recent weeks and so far this year is up 17%, more than that of any other big tech name besides gravity-defying Meta Platforms. What makes Microsoft’s performance so striking is that the stock was not cheap before the rally—based on multiples of earnings and sales—and it is even less cheap now. The premium put on the software giant’s shares... Read more ›
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As OpenAI seeks Microsoft’s approval to restructure the startup’s for-profit unit so it can go public, the companies have discussed changes to clauses in their contract that would limit Microsoft’s exclusive access to OpenAI’s technology after the startup achieves what it calls artificial ... Read more ›
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For the past three years, Microsoft has introduced a slew of new software tools, such as Copilot, by drawing on artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI. Under the terms of the software giant’s financial backing for OpenAI, Microsoft has access to the tech through 2030. The only risk was that OpenAI could move to cut off access if its board decided the AI had developed to the point where it could... Read more ›
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Recently, I argued that OnlyFans could sell itself for at least $30 billion, or nearly four times the price Ukrainian-American billionaire Leonid Radvinsky is reportedly considering, if only it finds an investor willing to overlook the stigma associated with porn. At the same time, though, the company faces the same threat looming over hundreds of more mundane tech companies: disruption by artificial intelligence. The proliferation of AI sex chatbots is... Read more ›
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Kalshi, a New York-based prediction market, said it has raised $185 million in a new round led by Paradigm, a crypto venture fund, that valued the company at $2 billion after the investment. Other investors in the round include Multicoin Capital, Sequoia, and Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao. ... Read more ›
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Data management software firm Rubrik is acquiring Predibase, a startup that helps companies train and fine-tune their artificial intelligence models. Predibase, which was founded in 2021 by former Google and Uber employees, had raised over $28 million from Felicis and Greylock. The terms ... Read more ›
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Bumble said it would lay off 30% of its workforce as returning CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd tries to turn the dating app around. Bumble shares were up more than 20% Wednesday following the announcement. The cuts will impact around 240 roles, according to a securities filing, saving roughly $40 million ... Read more ›
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