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Ghost, an open-source alternative to Substack's newsletter platform, is looking to join fediverse, a social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard, and most recently Instagram Threads . According to a post from Ghost founder John O'Nolan, the company, which is organized as a non-profit organization, will federate Ghost on his ActivityPub, his social networking protocol that powers the Fedverse. It is said that they are considering it. O'Nolan said the most requested feature over the past few years has been software federation. “It seems like there are a lot of potential ways to make…
Elon Musk plans to charge new X users a small fee to enable them to post on social networks and to curb the bot problem. In response to an “Today's AI (and troll farms) can easily pass the question, 'Are you a bot?'” Musk said, referring to tools like CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, the only way to limit the relentless attacks of bots is to pay a small fee for write access for new users. Today's AI (and troll farms) can easily pass the question, “Are you a bot?” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024 As with many announcements related to…
Businesses are amassing more data than ever to fuel their AI ambitions, but they are also concerned about who has access to this data, which is often highly private in nature. Masu. PVML offers an interesting solution that combines his ChatGPT-like tools for data analysis with the safety guarantees of differential privacy. PVML uses Search Augmentation Generation (RAG) to provide non-mobile access to enterprise data, eliminating the need for additional security considerations. The Tel Aviv-based company recently announced that it has raised $8 million in a seed round led by NFX, with participation from FJ Labs and Gefen Capital. Image…
Apple has removed iGBA, the Game Boy emulator app for the iPhone, after approving it for release last weekend. The app was one of the first to take advantage of Apple's newly relaxed rules regarding retro game emulators, with EU regulators forcing Apple to offer game emulators and other Patreon-like products like AltStore. The move comes after the tech giant forced its App Store to open up to competitors. Provide iPhone users with backed up apps. First unveiled on Sunday, iGBA was an ad-supported copy of GBA4iOS, an open source project that provides a Game Boy game emulator for iOS.…
After years of easy money, the AI industry is facing liquidation. Global investment in AI decreased for the second consecutive year in 2023, according to a new report from Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI), which studies AI trends. According to the report, which cited data from market intelligence firm Quid, both private investment (VC investments in startups) and corporate investment (mergers and acquisitions) in the AI industry will be on the decline compared to the previous year in 2023. It is said that there is. AI-related M&A decreased by 31.2% from $117.16 million in 2022 to $80.61 million…
The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs slowed down in the summer, before cuts began ramping up yet again toward the winter. Momentum for a tech sector rebound remains slow to build, outside of bright spots within artificial intelligence and adjacent companies, resulting in tech companies continuing to cut back on their…
Like many immigrants, the New York City skyline was one of the first sights young brothers Eddie and Etrit Demaji saw when they arrived in the United States more than 20 years ago. They and their families fled violence in their homeland of Kosovo, but they still remember the view as the plane flew over them. “The first building we saw was the Empire State Building,” Etritt recalls. The Demaji family soon settled in Detroit, where the brothers completed their education and founded various companies, including the state-of-the-art Kode Labs, which integrates and automates various systems in commercial buildings, including…
While layoffs typically evoke attention and sympathy for the affected employees, rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters, who are sometimes asked to leave when a company decides to downsize. In fact, tech companies cut up to half of their hiring teams during mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023. Paraform, a recruiting platform for startups, taps a pool of laid-off recruiters who started their own businesses to help startups source talent and access a broader talent network I feel there is an opportunity to do so. To fund its efforts, the company recently raised $3.6 million in…
Adobe said it is building an AI model to generate the video. However, it has not been revealed exactly when this model will be released. Also, little else has been revealed other than the fact that this model exists. Offered as a sort of answer to the models of OpenAI's Sora, Google's Imagen 2, and a growing number of startups in the early generative AI video space, Adobe's model is part of the company's expanding Firefly family of generative AI products. , Adobe's flagship video editing suite, Premiere Pro, will be released later this year, Adobe says. Like many current…
Companies that offer role referral bonuses do so on the assumption that employees are the most knowledgeable about their company's work culture and the requirements of the role. But what happens when companies open up these referral bonuses to people outside the organization? That's the idea behind Draftboard, co-founded by Zach Roseman, former CEO of mobile app development group Mosaic. Draftboard allows employers to post referral bonuses and allow referrals to compete for bonuses as they scour their network for talent. “If you're a large company, you're going to receive thousands of resumes for every role you post,” Roseman told…