Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M
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Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta
In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more
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Meta scraps its celebrity AI chatbot feature less than a year after launch and now expects people to use Meta's new AI Studio to customize their own AI avatars
“What's this?” — “Oh, ok.” — “Anyway....” — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: Brendan Brady / @bradybrendan1 : I will miss you AI Paris Hilton! Brett Dashevsky / @brettdash_...
After users reported that Meta's AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations
Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
and even Threads is warming to it Leo Grieco / Proactiveinvestors UK : Meta's Threads hits milestone but lags social media giants Sean Tilley / We Distribute : A Beginner's Guide t...
Researchers are increasingly using the Harry Potter books to experiment with generative AI, citing the series' wide range of language data and complex wordplay
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics”
In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
The AP and OpenAI sign a two-year deal; the AP gets access to OpenAI's tech in return for licensing some of its text archive dating back to 1985 for AI training
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality
an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality
Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run! — SVB
Sources: Apple hit major milestones in a Jobs-era project to develop noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, part of its Alphabet X-like Exploratory Design Group
Apple Inc. has a moonshot-style project underway that dates back to the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring.
Meta plans to shut down its newsletter subscription service Bulletin by early 2023; the Substack competitor launched in January 2021 and now has 120+ writers
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal”
Peter White / Deadline :
A look at the crypto promotion market, where paid influencers and middlemen like Dapp Centre coordinate campaigns that sometimes push the limits of US law
because it's not always disclosed—but many influencers posting about this or that cryptocurrency going 🚀 to the moon 🚀 are paid to do so: https://www.vice.com/... Edward Ongweso Jr...
Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub
Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
Elon Musk is buying Twitter to protect his ability to tweet, which is vital to his business interests, combatting the SEC, and because Tesla's stock stalled out
kinda the other side of @ranjanxroy's argument today https://www.readmargins.com/ ... @hongpong : someone should make an animation showing how a 40% drop in Tesla stock would trigg...