Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week
Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol , @karlbode.com , a...
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian : The LA Times' AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump Sh...
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
Adam Mosseri says Meta is adding political content recommendations to Instagram and Threads; Threads' political content control setting will have three options
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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer
Her husband, Dennis Troper, made the announcement earlier this evening: … Susan Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube
Ms. Wojcicki, who helped build Google, was one of the most prominent women in technology. — Susan Wojcicki, whose garage …
Google debuts Gemini Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable LLM, renames Bard as Gemini, debuts a dedicated Android app, and plans to add Gemini to its iOS app
its multimodal genAI engine Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog : Gemini takes over Bard: Google's AI with a dedicated Android app Mike Viray / Phandroid : Google Finally Launches its...
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $23B, Americas sales up 1% to $40.1B, and Europe sales down 1% to $22.5B
iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
Threads can avoid Google+'s failure by not simply relying on the scale of Meta's existing products, but by giving users a compelling reason to keep coming back
https://lists.w3.org/... Twitter: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Google worked VERY hard to make Google+ work, and it didn't, because it wasn't in its wheelhouse and Facebook ...
Twitter's best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads
If you're only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme:
NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based macOS terminal app with features like permalinks and AI auto-complete command suggestions, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia
https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... … Twitter: Andrew Reed / @andrew__reed : Excited to share that Sequoia led Warp's Series B and I joined their board. The cloud and AI offer the cha...
Interview with Tim Sweeney and Epic executives on Unreal Engine 5's launch, its “Nanite” graphic rendering tech, using it in building the metaverse, and more
Growing up in suburban Potomac, Maryland in the 1980s, Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games …