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Meta's X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that lets you see when someone on your social network is online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the feature in a thread post on Tuesday, saying the feature is intended to serve as a “helpful way to find people to interact with in real time.” . Thankfully, you can turn off the setting and only users who have this feature turned on will be able to see that you're online. Since its launch last year, Threads has lagged behind X (formerly Twitter) in surfacing real-time events and trends.…

Alert management to developers and operations teams may seem like a solved problem. After all, notifying an on-call engineer is no longer that difficult. But the real question is when to alert the right people and how to help them, for example if a service goes down. Many, including Keep, are turning to AI to solve some of these problems. The company offers an open source version that uses a rules-based system, but more interestingly, it has a paid enterprise product that uses AI models to reduce notification fatigue by deduplicating and correlating alerts. is. The Y Combinator-backed company, which…

Managing payroll properly is difficult, especially for small businesses with limited resources. The three founders of payroll and benefits startup Gusto each worked independently while running small businesses before joining forces to fix broken small business payroll systems in 2013. I noticed that. Josh Reeves, Gusto's co-founder and current CEO, said on a recent episode of TechCrunch's Found podcast that the founders got interested in the field out of personal struggles, but they don't want to simply serve their interests. He said he did not want to start a company. own problems. “We started talking to customers right away,” Reeves…

Bloomberg reported on Monday that the Biden administration is privately discussing restricting sales of Nvidia and AMD's advanced AI chips to some Persian Gulf countries on national security grounds. The restrictions could cap export permits to certain countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have invested heavily in AI data centers. The White House increasingly sees America's AI chips as a key advantage on the world stage. Last year, the United States banned the sale of Nvidia and AMD's advanced AI chips to China and placed export restrictions on 40 countries around the world to close…

Elon Musk's plan to reduce Company X's dependence on advertising revenue by increasing paid subscriptions has not yet taken off. Since launching the subscription service, formerly known as Twitter, in 2021, X has earned about $200 million across iOS and Android, according to a new third-party analysis of the X premium subscription service by app intelligence firm Appfigures. It is said to have generated in-app purchase revenue. Blue. There are a few things to note about this diagram. First, this amount is based only on purchases made via the mobile app, not the mobile or desktop web. This means the…

At the end of September, Kaspersky forcibly uninstalled it from about 1 million Americans' computers and replaced it with a new antivirus called UltraAV. Many were surprised and appalled that they were not asked to agree to the changes. The move was the final result of the U.S. government's ban on the sale of Kaspersky software in the country and, at least in theory, spelled the end of Kaspersky in the United States. However, not everyone in the United States has given up on Russian antivirus software. Some Americans have found ways around the ban and are still using Kaspersky…

Instagram is rolling out a new “Profile Card” feature that is essentially a digital business card for your profile. The official launch comes months after the Meta-owned social network was spotted testing the feature with select creators. The new double-sided profile card is designed to make it easier for users to share their Instagram accounts with others. You don't need to send your handle to anyone, just share your card. Instagram sees this feature as an easy way to connect with new people and make friends. One side is a shareable “card” that pulls information from your Instagram profile, including…

The New York Times sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity, asking it to cease accessing and using the content in its AI summaries and other output. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the document. The letter alleges that Perplexity “unjustly enriched” itself by exploiting the publisher's “unauthorized expressive, carefully written, researched, and edited journalism.” It is said to be in violation of copyright law. This is not the first time the newspaper has engaged with an AI company, suing OpenAI for using its content to train ChatGPT without consent. Other publishers have also accused Perplexity of unethical web scraping.…

Amplitude, a publicly traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly known as CommandBar. Most of San Francisco-based Command AI's 30-person team will join Amplitude. James Evans, Command AI's co-founder and CEO, declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but he was candid in saying that no acquisition was planned. “Our growth has been great and we have plenty of runway,” Evans told TechCrunch. “We weren't doing any shopping ourselves or anything like that, but when Amplitude reached out to us a while ago, this summer, we were very excited…