Docs: Amazon plans to launch its delayed overhaul of Alexa in October for as much as $10/month, with AI-generated news summaries, a chatbot for kids, and more
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post :
Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers
The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes
and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.” — https://www.nature.com/... [image] Philip N Cohen / @philipncohen@mastodon.social : “the book's repeated ...
There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes
and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.” — https://www.nature.com/... [image] Philip N Cohen / @philipncohen@mastodon.social : “the book's repeated ...
Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses”
Source: X plans to launch a TV app, which looks “identical” to YouTube's TV app, for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs next week
In a bid to compete with YouTube and recast itself as a video platform, Elon Musk's X is launching a television app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, a source at the company told F...
Reddit's S-1 shows how dependent the site is on the unpaid labor of 60K active daily moderators and the whims of its users and subreddits like r/WallStreetBets
The company's IPO prospectus makes clear how dependent it is on unpaid labor and the whims of its community. Threads: @nixcraft and @daveleebbg . X: @eshear Threads: @nixcraft : Re...
Many redditors say they are not enthusiastic about Reddit's IPO and expect CEO Steve Huffman to run the site into the ground while trying to make it profitable
There's the mention of r/WallStreetBets. (Five mentions in total, actually.) There's the stockpile it's amassed of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
In a first, the Signal Foundation publishes Signal's operating costs: ~$40M in 2023, projected to hit $50M by 2025, with $14M for infrastructure costs in 2023
Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users
Amazon plans to run limited ads on Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada starting in early 2024, charging $2.99/month extra in the US to avoid ads
Amazon plans to run limited ads on Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada starting in early 2024, charging $2.99/month extra in the US to avoid ads
- Prime Video will offer a more expensive ad-free option — Streamers want to increase revenue as production costs soar
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Common Stock This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock … Reuters : Instacart reveals IPO filing, disclosing PepsiCo investment, profitability Dan Frommer / The N...
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Common Stock This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock … Bill Peters / MarketWatch : Instacart files for IPO, joining crowded field of gig-economy names as marke...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twi...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …