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Apple CEO Tim Cook has promised that the company will “break new ground” with GenAI this year. Cook made the announcement today at the company's annual general meeting, the same week the company was reported to have scrapped a multibillion-dollar, 10-year EV manufacturing plan. Ta. According to multiple publications, some of the EV project's staff has been redeployed to work on various GenAI initiatives. $AAPL Cook: Apple will 'break new ground' with generative AI this year — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 28, 2024 Unlike many Big Tech rivals, Apple has been slow to invest in and enhance GenAI. Cook said…
Emerging decentralized social network and X rival Bluesky has just hired a notable former Twitter leader as its new head of trust and safety. The company announced Wednesday that it has appointed Aaron Rodericks, who most recently served as co-leader of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, to this new role. Leaders below the C-suite typically don't make headlines, but Mr. Roderix became more publicly known after becoming the target of a right-wing campaign at X. Influencers took notice of an announcement he made on LinkedIn last year indicating that he was planning to hire more staff. For his upcoming 2024…
Image credits: anycubic Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and are displaying messages warning them of a suspected security flaw in the company's systems. Numerous threads on the news-sharing site Reddit show similar reports (thanks to @dan) of users receiving unsolicited text files with the filename “hacked_machine_readme” on their Anycubic 3D printers. The planted text file claims that Anycubic has “critical vulnerabilities” and warns users to take steps to “prevent potential exploitation.” A portion of the text file looks like this: Your machine has a critical vulnerability and poses a serious threat to your security.…
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC that you need to know. So far, we’ve seen some big announcements from companies, including new Android features from Google, Lenovo’s new laptop concept and rollable phone concept and Xiaomi’s robotic dog. As MWC progresses, here’s how you can follow along with our team’s coverage. Wednesday, February 28 Liveliness wants to…
Finding someone who shares your active passions, such as hiking, biking, and running, can be a real challenge. Existing friends and family aren't necessarily into the same sports as you, and making new friends at the gym or rock pool can be a little awkward. Same goes for trying your luck in random groups on Facebook or WhatsApp. Step forward Liveiness is a Spanish startup building community apps to share a passion for sports. The freemium app, which was on display at 4YFN during the MWC trade show this week, allows users to set up a profile and find others…
Bitcoin's rise has turned out to be bad news for cryptocurrency trading app Coinbase, which has just confirmed that some of its customers have zero balances in their Coinbase accounts. “Your assets are safe,” the company assured app users on its website's status page, adding that its team is investigating the issue and will provide an update soon. Perhaps the app crash is related to the recent demand for Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency that soared to a near all-time high of $60,000 in 2021. Bitcoin prices rose on the back of the US Bitcoin Spot ETF. This month caused a…
Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today. DMs include the Substack app and website.[チャット]It can be accessed from the tab. By default, users only receive DMs from people they're connected to. Other messages are moved to your requests folder, where you can choose to accept or decline them. After releasing an X (formerly Twitter) clone called Notes last year, Substack is now copying yet another feature from the social network. A few months after launching Notes, the company started allowing users to follow each other. Substack is best known as a…
Want to weave different video clips generated by Stability AI into your movie? Now you have the tools to do it. Morph Studio, with its proprietary text-to-video model, has just introduced an AI filmmaking platform. The eponymous tool takes the form of a storyboard, allowing users to create and edit shots by entering text prompts for different scenes, and then combining them to create a coherent narrative. Powering the creation process is a partnership between Morph and Stability AI, but eventually Morph plans to introduce a series of generative video models for users to choose from. At Morph, we call…
Shader is Snap's AR development platform, with no-code AR creation tools that generate custom effects, 2D masks, and lenses in minutes instead of spending hours creating a single AR filter. It aims to challenge industry heavyweights like Lens Studio and TikTok's Effect House. Requires engineering and design skills. The startup built its platform on an open-source stable diffusion model and allows users to input text-based prompts to generate creations. The company was founded by Darya Sesitskaya, a former Snap design lead who designed Snapchat's AR camera, Lens Studio, Lens Cloud, and more. She also worked at her Wanna (formerly Wannaby),…
Anamorph, a new film production and technology company, announced its launch today. The startup, founded by filmmaker Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, wants to reimagine the movie experience using unique generative technology that can create a different movie each time it's shown. Anamorph is the first documentary to follow British musician, producer and visual artist Brian Eno, who has worked with legends such as David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Grace Jones and Talking, to debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. We unveiled the Eno for the first time and revealed its innovative technology. heads and many more. His…