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AI / The Verge ·
Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within its Muse AI assistant. The new feature, called "spaces," allows Muse to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the app. If you connect…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Sequoia Capital is closing its London office six years after opening it, and several people will leave the firm. The Silicon Valley investor announced the move on Wednesday in a memo posted on X, titled “The Sequoia of Tomorrow” and signed by its seven general partners. The firm said the decision…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
Tech / The Verge ·
Following the Melania documentary movie about Melania Trump that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the First Lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th. "MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Waymo co-chief executive Tekedra Mawakana says partnering with Uber was “a little bit of a crapshoot” for riders. On the same day, Uber told investors that robotaxis earn more on its platform than on their makers’ own apps. Mawakana spoke to Emily Chang on Bloomberg’s The Circuit. She explained…
Business / Fortune ·
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Tech / The Verge ·
Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Meta has paused planned changes to its rules for businesses and advertisers. Among other things, the new rules would have let it crawl the websites of firms that use its apps. The changes were due to take effect on November 20, but Meta’s existing terms will stay in place for now, Reuters reported…
Tech / The Verge ·
Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription service called Stack that lets you upload your own ebooks and documents to the company's servers where they'll be synced across multiple devices and apps, including your reading progress, highlights, and annotations. Kobo Stack is similar to Amazon's Send…
Tech / The Next Web ·
IonQ now expects revenue of $505M to $515M this year. The quantum computing company raised the outlook on Thursday as third-quarter revenue more than quadrupled to $173.8M. Its earlier forecast was $450M to $460M, and it had revenue of $130M in 2025, Bloomberg reported. Sales would almost…
Business / Fortune ·
Who audits the AI auditors?
Tech / The Verge ·
Apple's iPhone Duo has been officially on sale for two weeks, and the company said today that the App Store now has over 100,000 apps that are built for the foldable. "It's been wonderful to see how quickly developers have embraced iPhone Duo, and we're grateful for their creativity and innovation,"…
Business / Fortune ·
By the second half of 2027, some private equity firms may have to stop waiting for a better time to sell, JPMorgan’s global head of M&A says.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Cloudflare’s third-quarter revenue rose 39% from a year earlier to $782.5M, taking its annualised revenue past $3bn. The company reported the results on Thursday and raised its forecasts for the full year. Co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince called it “Cloudflare’s best quarter ever”.…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, owned nearly 3 million shares in chipmaker Qualcomm at the end of September, a stake worth $547.9m, Reuters reported on Friday. The figures come from a regulatory filing that lists Alphabet’s holdings in other companies. Qualcomm’s shares rose more than 3% in…
Tech / The Next Web ·
CesiumAstro has raised $730M in a Series D round that values it at more than $4.5bn. The Austin-based maker of satellites and space communications systems announced the round on Thursday. It also unveiled Synchronicity, a planned network of 737 satellites with AI built in, for commercial,…
Tech / Wired ·
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.
Startups / Sifted ·
Business / Crunchbase News ·
AI chip startups can challenge the sector's Goliath's by building substantially better hardware for emerging inference demands, much as Juniper challenged Cisco with a new architecture suited to the internet’s rapid growth. To win customers, writes guest author R K Anand, co-founder and chief…
Business / Crunchbase News ·
October was a busy month for U.S. startup funding, led by well-known venture investors with a healthy appetite for big deals. We take a look at active investor rankings across three categories: lead deal count, largest lead investments and total venture rounds.
AI / The Verge ·
When Irene moved to San Francisco last year, she started using dating apps as a way to meet new people, get to know her new city, and connect with others who care about the things she does. After the 25-year-old analyst downloaded Hinge and started swiping, she noticed a trend. "Hinge has a prompt…
Business / Fortune ·
Stop counting layoffs as AI returns.
Tech / Wired ·
Creators in their sixties, seventies, and eighties have flooded adult platforms as the demand for mature content has skyrocketed, with some turning to online sex work as a retirement lifeline.