In its first year, Snapchat+ reached 4 million paid subscribers. Two new features for subscribers were also announced. The first feature, “Expressive Chat Messages,” lets users send larger font messages. “Custom Chat Colors” lets users choose their chat name color. Snapchat currently displays your name in red in chats, but …
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Microsoft announced several AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and Edge sidebar chatbot today. Microsoft Edge’s shopping features haven’t been popular, but this new set of tools looks useful. Bing will now automatically generate buying guides for queries like “college supplies” using GPT-powered AI. It will automatically …
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Creating and documenting APIs takes time, but most developers want to help other companies connect to their services. Early-stage startup Speakeasy wants to automate that. The company exited stealth today with a $7.6 million seed investment. As a developer, Speakeasy co-founder and CEO Sagar Batchu sees his startup as an …
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According to , a high school accidentally reset everyone’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” after a cybersecurity audit. Oak Park and River Forest (OPRF) High School in Illinois informed parents last week that during a cybersecurity audit, “due to an unexpected vendor error, the system reset every student’s password, preventing students from …
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Today, Meta announced a remarkable claim to clarify its content recommendation algorithms. It prepares for behavior analysis systems “orders of magnitude” larger than ChatGPT and GPT-4. That’s necessary? Meta occasionally explains some of its algorithms to demonstrate its transparency. This can be enlightening or raise more questions. It’s a mix. …
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Lordstown Motors has sued Foxconn, the Taiwanese iPhone maker. The EV company sued Foxconn Tuesday and filed for bankruptcy and sale. Lordstown, the 2020 public EV startup, filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware. Lordstown sued and restructured after failing to resolve its dispute with Foxconn over a previously agreed investment. …
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Dust, a French AI startup, breaks down internal silos, surfaces important knowledge, and provides tools to build custom internal apps to boost team productivity. Dust uses LLMs on internal company data to give team members superpowers. Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu co-founded the company. In 2015, Stripe bought their startup, …
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Today, Meta introduced parental controls for Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. This includes a new parental supervision hub in Messenger, pre-emptive blocking of unwanted DMs on Messenger and Instagram, and nudges to remind teens to take a break. The U.S., U.K., and Canada will get Meta’s Family Center’s messenger supervision controls …
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Flipper Zero hacking device, a popular hacking device, may have caught your attention. The 2020-founded company left Russia at the war’s start and moved on. After selling almost $5 million in Kickstarter preorders, it claims it will sell $80 million in products this year and $25 million last year. They …
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ChatGPT may have captivated the world. However, Google-owned DeepMind claims that its next large language model will surpass OpenAI’s. Wired reports that DeepMind is using AlphaGo’s techniques to create Gemini, a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Wired that Gemini will solve problems and plan. Hassabis described Gemini as …
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