WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform.
Halo, a startup founded by two former Harvard students who built a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, introduces “always-on” AI glasses for $249
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Rebecca Bellan — Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” …
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI
In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang …
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet reportedly cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train, similar to Claude 3.5 and cheaper than GPT-4, which cost over $100M
“Assuming Claude 3.7 Sonnet indeed cost just ‘a few tens of millions of dollars’ to train, not factoring in related expenses, it's a sign of how relatively cheap it's becoming to r...
State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, iOS and Google Play app downloads dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while IAP and paid apps and games revenue rose 13% YoY to $150B
The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming.
Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B
Connecting Mobile to In-Person … Sarina Trangle / Yahoo Finance : You Spent Less Time Using Apps Last Year—But You Also Spent More Using Them Sensor Tower : Sensor Tower: Consumer ...
OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology
and its potential to go awry. https://techcrunch.com/... Larry Ferlazzo / @larryferlazzo : Why would that be, I wonder? —OpenAI releases a teacher's guide to ChatGPT, but some educ...
Perplexity's US election hub offered helpful, real-time election insights and maps on November 5, linking to reliable resources and providing historical context
https://lnkd.in/... Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : The Other Election Night Winner: Perplexity See also Mediagazer
A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway
Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator held the second Demo Day for its Summer 2024 cohort on Thursday, and just like we saw on Day 1 … X: @munshipremchnd and @thisguyoftheai X: @...
Hands-on with Plaud's NotePin: uses ChatGPT to transcribe conversations, can discern multiple people speaking in 59 languages, good haptics, and more
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Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use
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NYC-based Viam, which offers an automation software platform for robotics, IoT, smart homes, and more, raised a $45M Series B, taking its total raised to $87M
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The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations
The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations
#DSA — becomes legally enforceable for Very Large Online Platforms & Search Engines. These systemic platforms play a very important role in our daily lives — so it was time for the...
The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations
Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.