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Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the company expects to hit profitability next year with eyes on going public in the future. The chat app, which crossed 900 million users, is making “hundreds of millions of dollars” through ads and … Continue reading

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Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots

Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the cofounder and CEO of the U.C. Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.” … Continue reading

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How to stop the Black Death in Crusader Kings 3

We have all had a fairly recent brush with a nasty disease spreading across the Globe, but back in the day when the OG pandemic hit in the Middle Ages, staying out of Starbucks may not have saved you. As … Continue reading

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Trump says a TikTok ban would empower Meta, slams Facebook as ‘enemy of the people’

“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Donald Trump said in a CNBC TV interview Monday.

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EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules

A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software. Announcing its decision in a press release today, the European Data … Continue reading

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SuperAGI snags funding from Jan Koum’s Newlands VC to fuel its full-stack AGI ambitions

SuperAGI wants to build a full-stack Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) platform based on Large Agentic Models (LAMs) — seen by some as the next stage in development for Large Language Models. Now, with its research picking up traction with some 20,000 … Continue reading

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The AI dolls to tackle loneliness of South Korea’s elderly (and watch them)

To solve the loneliness epidemic, a Korean-based company has launched an AI companion doll for seniors. Showcased at the Mobile World Congress at the end of February, Hyodol unleashed the $1800 robot doll which they say will bring emotional support … Continue reading

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Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds

In the last 12 months, reader apps have adopted AI to change how users consume news. Instagram co-founders’ now discontinued Artifact introduced AI-powered summaries and headlines. Newer apps like Bulletin and former Twitter engineer’s Particle are taking similar approaches. However, … Continue reading

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Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Former Trust and Safety Chief, Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps

Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now he’s head of trust and safety at dating giant Match Group, owner of Tinder, Hinge, and more.

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Reddit to raise nearly $750 million in upcoming IPO

Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, in which the social media company is seeking a valuation of about to $6.5 billion.

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