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Phantom, a heavily used cryptocurrency wallet in the Solana ecosystem, has more than tripled its active user base over the past year, CEO and co-founder Brandon Millman tells TechCrunch exclusively. Millman said Phantom will reach 3.2 million monthly active users (MAUs) in January 2024, up 220% from 1 million a year ago and 463.5% more than the 167,000 installs in the same period. It reportedly recorded 941,000 installs. “These numbers are essentially our peak” and exceed usage and metrics from the previous crypto bull market in 2021 and early 2022, he added. “The Jito and Jupiter airdrops were a huge…

You'll soon be able to tell ChatGPT to forget things or remember certain things for future conversations. Today, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory” controls to some free and paid users of ChatGPT as part of a test, with plans to roll them out more broadly at an unspecified point in the future. This control allows you to explicitly tell ChatGPT to remember something, confirm what it remembers, or turn off memory completely. OpenAI explains in a blog post: “ChatGPT can now transfer what it learns between chats, giving you more relevant responses. When you chat with ChatGPT, you can…

The Fediverse is a little bit bigger today, as Flipboard publishes over 1,000 social magazines on a decentralized social web, allowing curators and publishers to reach new audiences. The news follows an announcement in December that the magazine app would begin integrating directly with Fediverse, a decentralized social web that includes X competitors Mastodon, PixelFed, and other apps. Sensing a shift in the direction of social media, Flipboard discontinued support for Twitter/X in its app last year. Users can now curate content from around the web into “magazines” and share them with other readers. Instead of Twitter, the company embraced…

Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real-time, today introduces Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings, adding a new layer of AI to its products. GenAI includes an AI chatbot that can be queried to retrieve information about past meetings recorded in Otter, an AI chat feature available for teams, and an AI conversation summary that provides an overview of meetings held . Therefore, there is no need to read the full transcript to understand the content. Journalists and students may use AI to record interviews, lectures, and more, but Otter's new AI capabilities…

Always keen to encourage the purchase of the latest GPUs, Nvidia is releasing a tool that allows owners of GeForce RTX 30-series and 40-series cards to run AI-powered chatbots offline on their Windows PCs. The tool, called Chat with RTX, allows users to customize GenAI models along OpenAI's ChatGPT by connecting them to documents, files, and notes that can be queried. “Rather than searching through notes or saved content, users can simply enter a query,” Nvidia wrote in a blog post. “For example, you can ask, 'What restaurant did your partner recommend to you while we were in Las Vegas?'”…

There are many apps that let you keep track of the movies, TV shows, and books you watch and read. Some of them are indie apps that utilize various online databases. Some, such as Letterboxd, Goodreads, and Trakt, are full-fledged services with large user communities. Memorizer starts with the same idea, showing that it's always good to write a list of things you enjoyed to review later. But it goes in a different direction. This mobile app also helps you find inspiration and helps you discover new things. And the startup is doing extremely well, managing to attract a loyal…

An AY Combinator-backed startup called Cambio is bringing AI to the banking industry in a surprising way. We are deploying AI bots on calls with businesses and consumers. The startup started by offering an AI-powered service that negotiated debt collections on behalf of consumers, which it says helped about 70% of its customers resolve collections and improve their credit scores. Now, Cambio is deploying its technology as an API to banks and credit unions to help with cold calling. Cambio comes from Bresson Abraham (CEO), an entrepreneur with a background in banking. Previously, Abraham served as co-founder and CEO of…

A bug in the online forum of fertility tracking app Glow has exposed the personal data of around 25 million users, security researchers say. This bug allows the user's first and last name, self-declared age range (kids 13-18, adults 19-25, 26+, etc.), user's self-declared location, and the app's unique user ID (Glow's (within the software platform), and user-uploaded images such as profile pictures. Security researcher Ovi Liber told TechCrunch that he discovered user data was being leaked from Glow's developer API. Liber reported the bug to Glow in October, and Glow said it fixed the leak about a week later.…

Last year, there was interest in agent-based AI approaches such as AutoGPT. This year, we're seeing startups implementing some of the “let AI do the work” use cases. Her Mindy, who advertises herself as an email-based executive assistant, is one example. Using Mindy is very easy. You can email your questions to the assistant at m@mindy.com with questions like: “I want to know about all the events happening in my area.” [you have to specify the area] There is a link to book your tickets this weekend. ” or “Can you tabulate Apple’s sales for the past eight quarters?” Mindy…

Ever since former Salesforce co-CEO Brett Taylor announced he would be leaving the CRM giant in November 2022, we've been hearing about his latest work. Last February, I heard he was launching an AI startup he built with former Google employee Clay Baber. Today, they're launching a new conversational AI company called Sierra, making bold claims about what it can do. At the heart of the new company is a customer service bot. In fact, this is not the only surprising thing, but the company claims that its software goes beyond extending his FAQ page and is much more than…