Monthly Archives: May 2024

Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo! recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer. As CPO, Krieger will oversee … Continue reading

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Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds

As cloud adoption continues to surge towards the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we’re seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors for tools to help manage that usage. In the latest development, a startup … Continue reading

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Google announces Veo, an advanced text-to-video AI to compete with Sora

Google is quick on OpenAI’s heels, as just three months after the text-to-video generator Sora was announced, the search engine and technology company has launched its version. At the annual Google I/O developer conference event on Tuesday (May 14), Veo … Continue reading

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TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban

Content creators on the popular social media platform TikTok have taken legal action against the U.S. government. This move from the creators is in response to a new federal law that has forced Chinese owners ByteDance to sell their assets … Continue reading

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Single-player game Assassin’s Creed Shadows will have mini Battle Passes, fans unhappy

We heard this week that Assassin’s Creed Red – the latest upcoming game in the series had finally had its Red codename updated to its brand new title, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. More information is beginning to bubble to the surface … Continue reading

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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever leaves ChatGPT maker

One of the co-founders of the pioneering AI company behind ChatGPT is leaving the team he helped to build. The ChatGPT tool which was created by OpenAI remains at the center of the generative AI boom. Yet at a huge … Continue reading

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Amazon’s appearance at Upfronts highlights push beyond digital ads and into traditional media

Amazon made its debut Upfronts pitch to advertisers, putting it on stage with major media networks.

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Sony-backed computing startup heads for rare IPO in sidelined London stock market

Raspberry Pi, which makes tiny single-board computers, said in a filing that it is considering an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.

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Deadspin’s New Owners Reveal Their Plans: Betting Content—but No AI

The future of once-beloved sports blog Deadspin has been murky since it was acquired by an unknown company called Lineup Publishing in March. The new ownership shared its plans with WIRED.

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Period trackers ‘coercing’ women into sharing risky information

Research finds poor data management practices such as not being able to delete data about abortions.

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