Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will add video to Spaces, its live audio chat feature. Musk claimed X will launch the feature by year’s end, “certainly by early next year.” Musk said SpaceX is adding video as a feature. It’ll be easy to turn the video on or off.” If …

Mistral AI reached its Series A funding goal in France. Bloomberg reports that the company raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate, worth $2 billion. Today, Mistral AI unveils its commercial platform. Google’s DeepMind and Meta alumni founded Mistral AI to create open-technology foundational models. It raised …

Four months after launching on Windows, Swiss privacy-focused company Proton launched its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service for Mac. Nine years ago, Proton focused on Gmail alternatives like Proton Mail, but now it offers VPNs, password managers, calendars, and cloud storage. After launching Proton Drive on the web in …

Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi’s father was blind from congenital glaucoma at age four. Due to this, his father was active with the Iranian Blind Foundation. Vaghefi says most of his childhood pals were blind or had blind parents. Vaghefi considered becoming a physician to aid people like his …

OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot, ChatGPT, has gone viral. Over 92% of Fortune 500 companies use a behemoth tool to increase productivity by writing essays and coding with brief text prompts for more general uses. Although ChatGPT has a negative aspect, AI tools are here to stay. ChatGPT boasts 100 million weekly …

The father of Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi was blind at four from congenital glaucoma. Thus, his father joined the Iranian Blind Foundation. VAGHEFI says most of his childhood friends were blind or had blind parents. Vahefi considered becoming a clinician to help people like his father, but he …

Apple announced Thursday that it will add RCS support to iOS next year, resolving the widespread issue of text messaging compatibility between iPhones and Android smartphones but not eliminating the “green bubble” dread. Critics have long argued that Apple’s refusal to support RCS has fragmented messaging ecosystems, particularly for Android …

“Avengers” director Joe Russo and I are increasingly convinced that fully AI-generated movies and TV shows are possible in our lifetimes. In recent months, OpenAI’s ultra-realistic text-to-speech engine has shown glimpses of this brave new frontier. As for me, Meta’s announcement today brought our AI-generated content future into sharp relief. …

Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb, the founders of Myspace and Jam City, have followed tech trends for nearly two decades. The veteran tech entrepreneurs launched Plai Labs, an a16z-backed social platform development startup that provides AI tools for consumers to collaborate and connect, earlier this year. Plai Labs launched PlaiDay, …

Microsoft wants to give a few startups free Azure cloud “supercomputing” resources to develop AI models during an AI chip shortage. Microsoft added a free Azure AI infrastructure option for “high-end,” Nvidia-based GPU virtual machine clusters to train and run generative models, including large language models like ChatGPT, to its …