Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in a deal valued at $450M
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Despite a generative AI funding mania, data shows that other startup funding remains bleak, with valuations down and few IPOs, deals, and late-stage rounds
Newcomer : Twitter: @ediggs , @sandy_carter , and @doener_tech Twitter: Eze Vidra / @ediggs : Global venture funding in Q2 2023 fell 18% quarter over quarter to $65 billion That's...
Masayoshi Son says SoftBank plans to go on the “counteroffensive” soon by resuming AI investments; the group has $35B+ after halting investments in recent years
Billionaire chief talks up AI and reveals he had breakdown in October where he questioned his achievements as an entrepreneur
An interview with Sundar Pichai on the future of Search, AI being one of the deepest platform shifts, his vision for Google, merging DeepMind, and more
AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google's CEO, and he's not worried about being first. — Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet.
Artists say they risk losing income as people use their names as distinctive style prompts in text-to-image AI art generators for commercial purposes
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review :
A hacker stole millions of dollars' worth of NFTs via a phishing attack compromising Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram and promoting a malicious “mint” link
Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block :
Facebook adds an Audio hub to its app in the US, featuring podcasts, Live Audio Rooms, and short-form audio, and rolls out Live Audio Rooms globally
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
A look at the state of the VC industry: from over-paying in the face of absurd valuations, to big bets on decentralized “Web 3.0” apps, cybersecurity, and more
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table : Tweets: @ediggs , @michaelandma , @eghosao , @ljungman , @trengriffin , and @kevinweil Tweets: Eze Vidra / @ediggs : The changing venture l...
Researchers identify causes for Zoom fatigue: intense close-up eye contact, constantly seeing own reflection, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load
talks about extra cognitive and emotional demands. Great tips. I like this one: “give yourself an “audio only...not simply you turning off your camera... but also turning your body...
Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load
It's not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.
Calendly, a popular meeting scheduling service, raises $350M from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq at a $3B+ valuation
Sources: Apple to launch redesigned iMacs this year with a Pro Display XDR-like design, and is working on two new Mac Pros, one of which may use Intel CPUs
Apple Inc. is planning the first redesign of its iMac all-in-one desktop computer since 2012, part of a shift away from Intel Corp. processors …
Kuo: 14" and 16" MacBook Pros coming in Q3 2021 with Apple Silicon, MagSafe charging, no Touch Bar, new design with squared-off sides and more built-in IO ports
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Kuo: 14" and 16" MacBook Pros coming in Q3 2021 with Apple Silicon, MagSafe charging, no Touch Bar, new design with squared-off sides and more built-in IO ports
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today released some interesting details about the upcoming MacBook Pro.
WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more
WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more
WhatsApp users are receiving an in-app notice today regarding the service's new terms and privacy policy.
Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior” for a few hours
and has downranked the deliverability of my email address. There are cascading failures resulting from this interruption. https://twitter.com/... Eze Vidra / @ediggs : Another Goog...
Zoom says its OnZoom paid events platform and marketplace is now generally available and launches Zapps, letting third parties integrate with its main app
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June
Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.
Source: digital advertising platforms Taboola and Outbrain have ended merger talks after failing to agree on revised deal terms, a year after announcing merger
- Nearly a year after announcing a deal to unite, merger talks between digital advertising platforms Taboola and Outbrain have ended.