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Bird filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ending a rough year for the electric scooter company. Bird announced today that it had begun a “financial restructuring process aimed at strengthening its balance sheet” but would continue to pursue “long-term, sustainable growth.” Bird, founded in 2017 by former Lyft and Uber executive …

Duet AI for Developers, the suite of AI-powered code completion and generation tools Google announced earlier this year, is now generally available and will start using Google’s more powerful Gemini model in the coming weeks. GitHub’s Copilot leads in developer mindshare for code completion and generation tools, but Google is …

Google is making Imagen 2, its AI model that can create and edit images with a text prompt, more widely available to Google Cloud customers using Vertex AI who have been approved. The company isn’t disclosing which data it used to train the new model or offering creators who accidentally …

Last week, Google announced its family of Gemini models and added them to its Bard chatbot. Today, it’s launching a variety of new and updated services for developers. One of these services is AI Studio, formerly MakerSuite. AI Studio is a web-based tool for developers that opens up the Gemini …

Instagram is considering a new feature called “flipside” that lets users create a private side of their profile to post more candid and personal photos for a select group of friends. The feature productizes “finstas”—alternative Instagram accounts where people post their real-life photos instead of their polished public Instagrams. The …

On Tuesday, Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro launched a battery-swapping network and three smart scooters in India, the world’s most populous country and largest two-wheeler market. According to Gogoro CEO Horace Luke, India sees India as a manufacturing hub and plans to export its smart scooters to Nepal. The company …

We talk a lot about AI’s drawbacks, but what about its benefits, like feeding authors’ or historical figures’ writing into a large language model? James Lowry is unknown, but his story is part of black American history. Chicago-born Lowry was the first Black McKinsey consultant in 1968 after serving in …

A jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could change how app marketplaces like Google Play operate on Monday. The unanimous verdict ends the companies’ three-year legal battle. Fortnite creator Epic sued Google in 2020, alleging that its app store practices violated federal and California …

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 …

Current U.S. efforts to slow China’s technological advancement focus on semiconductors. Washington targets electric vehicle batteries, another rapidly growing Chinese tech sector. This month, Treasury and Energy Department proposals would reduce tax credits for electric vehicle buyers who use battery materials from China and other “hostile” countries. EVs made in …