Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to attract new users
Dating apps develop AI ‘wingmen’ to generate better chat-up lines This will include “generating conversation prompts based on users' unique profiles and chat histories” Sounds like...
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to bring back users
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Grindr are racing to create chatbots that can coach Gen Z users to flirt X: @raydouglasuk and @keithdsouza Forums: r/hingeapp and r/technology X: Ray Doug...
Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to participate in a funding round that would value OpenAI at $100B+
- Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
Emergence, which is building “agent-based” systems that orchestrate tasks by routing them to first- and third-party AI systems, emerges from stealth with $97.2M
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X plans to make the ability to create live streams a premium feature, making it the only major social platform to charge for the feature
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Spotify debuts a new Basic streaming plan in the US for $10.99/month, which includes all the benefits of Premium without the monthly audiobook listening time
X plans to make the ability to create live streams a premium feature, making it the only major social platform to charge for the feature
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Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market
How to use, top features, more Moneycontrol : Jio Financial Services launches ‘JioFinance’ app in beta version Business Today : Jio Financial launches beta version of JioFinance ap...
Google is discontinuing its Google One VPN in the coming months due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain
Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms.
Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown
Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad …
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model
- OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps
- Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation
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Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765
Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix
The exploited code-execution flaws are the kind coveted by ransomware and nation-state hackers. — Organizations big and small …
Bluesky adds the N-word to a “reserved” words list, after users reported that some usernames include the slur, highlighting the site's ongoing moderation issues
The oversight highlighted an ongoing moderation issue at the platform. — Before this week, Bluesky …
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …