On X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk said headlines will be shown in preview cards with URLs again after removing titles last month. Musk announced on X that a URL Card update will display the title in the upper portion. He didn’t provide a rollout timeline or card example. The Tesla …
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Instagram now lets anyone download public Reels
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced Wednesday that it now lets users worldwide download public reels. Before this update, you could only save reels to Instagram for later viewing. Mosseri said on his Instagram broadcast channel that downloaded reels will have a TikTok-like account name watermark. Tap share and download to …
Read More »Mac gets Proton Drive encrypted cloud storage
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 …
Read More »US chip export ban hurts Chinese AI startups, not giants
Tech companies hoarded high-performance GPUs before Washington banned their exports to China in anticipation of a tech war. In an earnings call this week, Baidu CEO Robin Li said the company has enough AI chips to train Ernie Bot for “next year or two.” “Inference requires less powerful chips, and …
Read More »Even with Sam Altman’s return, OpenAI must prove itself
For now, the OpenAI power struggle that captivated the tech world after co-founder Sam Altman was fired has ended. But how do you interpret? It seems like OpenAI died and a new, but not necessarily better, startup replaced it. Ex-Y Combinator President Altman returns, but is he justified? OpenAI’s founding …
Read More »Toku’s AI scans your eye to anticipate heart disease
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 …
Read More »ChatGPT: Everything about the AI-powered chatbot
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 …
Read More »Alternative Notion open source AppFlowy has big-name supporters and goes cloud
Several internet investors have backed a new firm that uses open source projects and knowledge management to target the lucrative office productivity market. Famous founders Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Steve Chen (YouTube), Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub), Bob Young (Red Hat), and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera) have invested $6.4 million in AppFlowy. OSS Capital …
Read More »Tinder adds questions, info tags, and quizzes to profiles
Tinder is improving its profile pages to provide more information and spark conversations. Profile quizzes, discussion starters, basic info tags, and dark mode are new features. Examine these new features in depth. The Match-group-owned app is adding profile prompts for questions like “The key to my heart is,” “The first …
Read More »Welltok patient health data was hacked
Virgin Pulse’s healthcare platform, Welltok’s file transfer tool, was hacked to steal over a million people’s personal data. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with healthcare plans to communicate with subscribers, informed Maine’s attorney general last week that hackers stole more than 1.6 million people’s sensitive data. Welltok …
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