Monthly Archives: January 2025

Ivanka Trump warns investors that meme token bearing her name is fake

Ivanka Trump posted on X on Thursday that a meme coin with her name on it isn’t real, following the prior launch of $TRUMP and $MELANIA tokens.

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OpenAI introduces Operator to automate tasks such as vacation planning, restaurant reservations

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled Operator, which it calls “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you.”

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Substack introduces a $20M funding guarantee to entice creators to migrate to its platform

Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed at helping creators grow their audience and move their paid subscribers from another subscription-based platform to Substack. The company says the … Continue reading

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X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users

Social network X has grown its in-app revenue over the past year, despite a decline in active users, new data shows. Global consumer spending in the X mobile app across both iOS and Android has climbed by 76.3% year-over-year, when … Continue reading

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Roli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI play

Roli on Thursday announced its latest educational product at the NAAM audio show in Anaheim. The simply named Roli Piano builds on products like the Roli Airwave and Piano M, more than doubling the latter’s key count to 49. The … Continue reading

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Perplexity launches an assistant for Android

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, which Perplexity says uses reasoning, search, and apps to help with daily tasks. Perplexity Assistant, which is available for Android devices as of Thursday in the Perplexity … Continue reading

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EA shares plunge 19%, on track for worst day since dot-com bubble

Electronic Arts shares plummeted on Thursday after the video game publisher cut its forecast, due largely to challenges with its soccer franchise.

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Three outage leaves thousands unable to make calls

There have also been several thousand reports of problems from users of Smarty and ID Mobile.

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Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams

Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access … Continue reading

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Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an “AI war.”

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