Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
Sources: CoreWeave is aiming for a valuation of over $35B and is likely to target raising more than $3B in its US IPO that is expected to occur in Q2 2025
One of the greatest pivots of all time. [embedded post] X: Craig Stephens / @accessipos : CoreWeave just closed a $650 million tender offer at a $23 billion valuation (October). Now it's targeting a ...
Ilya Sutskever says “we're back in the age of wonder and discovery” as AI companies focus on pre-training, inference improvements, and finding the “next thing”
There's been a lot of chatter about the “end of LLMs” or “LLMs starting to fail.” Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : OpenAI models may be starting to plateau Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine : Op...
OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising “more direct, less verbose” responses that “use more conversational language”
and OpenAI says it's better in these key areas GSMArena.com : OpenAI makes ChatGPT smarter and quicker for paying users John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI Rolls Out Major GPT-4 Turbo Upgrade Livemin...
Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik plans an US IPO as early as April 2024, amid a DOJ fraud investigation into one of its former employees
Reuters : X: @readkrystalhu X: Krystal Hu / @readkrystalhu : Rubrik, the data security company that was last valued at $4 billion in 2021, just celebrated its 10th birthday and is looking to flip its...
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...
In memo to employees, Bezos says face mask orders for workers are unfilled due to short global supply, and that his time is now “wholly focused” on COVID-19
There's a debate emerging … Justine Coleman / The Hill : Amazon doubling overtime pay for warehouse workers Georgina Torbet / Digital Trends : Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers, but hol...