Ireland’s privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

The exact contents of X’s (now permanent) undertaking with the DPC have not been made public, but it’s assumed the agreement limits how it can use people’s data.
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Waymo Turns Toward Making Money as It Expands Driverless Car Business

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

Now that its technology is showing it can work on city streets, Alphabet, which owns Waymo, plans to invest billions more.

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TikTok Expands its Election Resources Ahead of November

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

The company is an increasingly popular source of political news. It’s adding more content about how elections work and media literacy.

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Bitcoin overnight sell-off takes it below $56,000 before stabilizing

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

Bitcoin slid back toward $55,000 overnight as it caught up with Tuesday’s broader market sell-off.

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How To Separate Business & Personal Finances in 9 Ways

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

Separating your business and personal finances can seem daunting. Trust me, it’s not. I’ve created a simple 9 step guide that will help you understand what’s involved in the process of keeping your finances separate.

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This AI Writing Tool Can Help Your Content Write Itself

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

This WordPress plugin is designed to eliminate the struggle of writing original content for your blog and generate regular content for you.

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Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel. SSI told Reuters that it plans to use the tranche to […]
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Revefi seeks to automate companies’ data operations

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

Revefi connects to a company’s data stores and databases (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks and so on) and attempts to automatically detect and troubleshoot data-related issues.
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You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

If you build an AI search product, you compete with Google. But Google has a lot easier time answering queries with a single, simple answer, such as “how many is a dozen?” than it does answering complex questions like “what influence did Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ have on Enlightenment ideals?” That’s why You.com is betting […]
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A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Techme101

The Dataset Providers Alliance calls for creators and rights holders to be able to opt in to having their material used for training purposes.

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