AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

Liking features on social media can provide troves of data about human behavior to AI models. But as AI gets smarter, will it be able to know users’ preferences before they do?

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Venmo revenue grows 20%, with debit card payment volume soaring

Venmo, long viewed as a business laggard for PayPal, is generating much faster revenue growth than the overall company.

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PayPal reports first-quarter earnings beat, maintains forecast

PayPal reported better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter but missed on revenue.

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Here’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer event

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small […]

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Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers

Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist. Yelp says its agents don’t require a complicated setup or API integrations, and can draw from existing metadata along with data […]

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Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says

Governments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.

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Some M&S stores left with empty shelves after cyber attack

The BBC understands M&S’s operations will take until the end of the week before beginning to return to normal.

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A16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmaker

Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is backing a fledgling U.K. startup that’s setting out to “redefine” how AI is used to match companies with talent. Dex, as the startup is called, targets candidates and companies with various AI-powered recruitment smarts, including matchmaking and coaching, with a view toward improving retention in the long […]

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Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups

Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play.  Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, […]

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Alibaba launches new Qwen LLMs in China’s latest open-source AI breakthrough

Alibaba has launched Qwen3, its next generation of AI models in what experts called the latest breakthrough in China’s booming open-source AI space.

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