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An X challenger named itself T2 at launch to compete with Twitter, but that name is no longer used. The company announced on its platform that the X competitor will be called “Pebble.” Pebble users received a brief explanation for the name change: “A pebble is something small and unassuming. …

Arm EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey told me this morning, minutes before the chip designer’s stock started trading on Nasdaq, that “AI, I believe, is the growth of Arm.” You may not think of AI when you hear about Arm, but Abbey immediately thought of it when I …

Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has published a sustainability trends report every year for seven years with the goal of becoming the climate tech industry’s bible, like Mary Meeker’s “internet trends” reports were to dot-com entrepreneurs. Reading …

It’s Wednesday, and Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have had a terrible week. The SEC charged the Hollywood power couple’s NFT-based web series, “Stoner Cats,” with unregistered securities. The SEC states, “Stoner Cats is an adult animated television show about house cats that become sentient after being exposed to their …

The EU plans to let startups train AI models on its HPC supercomputers. Startups seeking access to the EU’s high-power compute resource, which includes pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers, must join its AI governance program. In May, the EU announced a plan for a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards …

OpenAI will open its first EU office and make several strategic hires to prepare for regulatory headwinds. After opening offices in San Francisco and London in June, ChatGPT plans to open its third office in Ireland, which has become a second home for many U.S. tech companies seeking to connect …

During Tuesday’s iPhone 15 launch event, Apple focused on games. While mobile devs talked about the improved hardware and software, we also learned that some recent top-tier console games, including Resident Evil 4 remake, Resident Evil Village, and Death Stranding, are coming to the iPhone. The iPhone’s distinction from dedicated …

Salesforce introduced Einstein Copilot Studio at Dreamforce in San Francisco today to customize Salesforce’s base Einstein GPT and Copilot offerings. Clara Shih, Salesforce AI CEO, says Einstein Copilot Studio has prompt, skills, and model builders. Shih told , “The first piece is the prompt builder, and this is for customers …

One of the most popular post-Twitter apps reached a milestone on Tuesday. Bluesky strategy and operations manager Rose Wang posted a screenshot on X, formerly Twitter. The X competitor famously only allowed app access through a waitlist and user invitations, keeping the platform’s population small as it scaled. https://x.com/iamrosewang/status/1701735196679356887?s=20 Bluesky …

Telegram, with 800 million monthly users, is launching a self-custodial crypto wallet. The move will solidify its presence in the vibrant crypto community that has grown from its chat platform and may attract more people to crypto. Telegram and TON Foundation announced TON Space, a self-custodial wallet, on Wednesday at …