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Poe, Quora's platform that brings together numerous AI models under one roof, has launched a new feature that allows users to build visual interfaces (e.g. apps) on any combination of models. This feature, called the POE app, allows POE users to describe what apps they will create with the new app creation tool. The description can include references to a particular model, such as the specific model you want to use for your app (Openai's O3-Mini, Google's Video Generation Veo 2) or the broader general specifications. Poe's new app creator tool. Powered by Anthropic's recently released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, App…

Bluesky has been added to the Opera web browser. On Tuesday, the Norwegian-based software maker announced the addition of a new social network along with Slack and Discord. All of these are integrated into the browser sidebar along with other messaging and communication services. Opera users were able to customize their browsers with shortcuts for messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, Tiktok, X, and more. Adding discrepancies in Slack with Bluesky in the sidebar will help you expand the appeal of the app among people who spend a lot of time, both personally and at work. It is also…

Creating software using generator AI has been perhaps the biggest use case since it first appeared a few years ago. However, platforms like cursors and copilots are limited to the world where trained engineers live. Swedish AI startup Lovable reached the front page of both product hunt and hacker news last year after using prompts to make apps very easy to create. Currently, they are raising $15 million in the pre-round series led by Creandum. A loved one can build what is called production-ready software, without the need for coding knowledge. In addition to building prototypes and websites, GPT engineers…

When goods enter the United States, they must be declared to US Customs so that they can charge the importer appropriate taxes. This applies to everything from consumers ordering clothing from overseas-based brands to all items on a huge container ship. When it comes to commercial imports, filling out the required documents is manual and boring. Many large importers either build their own internal methods or outsource customs to customs brokers. DocunLock wants to automate processes. DocunLock is a platform used by customs brokers to streamline the filling of necessary documents that importers need. DocunLock is integrated into your custom…

Spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories has won $5 million in seed funding to commercialize blood tests for endometriosis. Infertility issues. Endometriosis affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. Getting a diagnosis remains challenging, with some women reporting that it can take years from a doctor's trip or an invasive test before getting confirmation. It delays treatments that may reduce their pain or increase their chances of becoming pregnant. Affinia's mission is because treatment can occur faster to speed up the diagnosis. Co-founder Dr. Lauren Foster (pictured at the top left) explained that endometriosis is not…

YouTube announced that it is making changes to mid-roll ads to improve the viewing experience for users, helping creators earn more revenue. Starting May 12, Google-owned platforms will display fewer ads at moments when they feel disruptive or may abandon the video, like in the middle of a sentence or action sequence. It's planned. Instead, you'll see more mid-roll ads at natural breakpoints in the video, such as poses and transitions. YouTube can update old videos uploaded by February 24th to automatically include ad slots in natural breakpoints. Creators can opt out of this in YouTube Studio if they want…

As Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the disgraceful FTX, serves the early days of a 25-year prison prison, Crypto Wunderkind-Turned-Criminal recorded its first public post on X in over two years . X's Bankman-Fried thread responds to recent federal employees of Elon Musk. Respond to his email with five bullet points of recent achievements or resign. Musk appears to have cornered millions of government officials, but the SBF has broken his official silence to comment on the messy situation. “I have a lot of sympathy for government employees. I have not checked emails for the past few days either,” he…

This week, Apple announced that it will bring Apple developer services to China's WeChat app as part of its efforts to invest more in the Chinese market. The service includes news, announcements and other activities for members of the developer community. This is usually provided via Apple's website and its own developer app. This move comes amid a decline in iPhone sales in the Chinese market. In the most recent quarter, China's sales fell 11.1%, affecting iPhone revenues. Partly this is because Apple faces increased competition with local manufacturers such as Oppo and Huawei. This has led the iPhone maker…

Doordash agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle the lawsuit by the New York Attorney General. The lawsuit was already insured to workers between May 2017 and September 2019 by Doordash using customer tips to give workers the full tips they received. He claimed that the base salary was offset. The lawsuit said it was misunderstood to believe that their tips would directly benefit delivery workers. About 63,000 New York doordash delivery workers will benefit from the settlement. “We are still committed to ensuring that Dasher's revenues are always fair and transparent and that the resolved claims are related to…

Just a few weeks after Chipmaker Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million, developers can try out Tenstorrent's AI accelerator on Koyeb. Tenstorrent sells AI processors built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture and has developed its own open source neural network library TT-NN, and TT Metalium, an open source low-level programming model. Tenstorrent is part of a group of companies looking to build alternatives to Nvidia GPUs and the company's CUDA library. It competes with Axelera, Etched, Groq and others. Founded by former Scaleway executives, Koyeb focuses on developing a serverless cloud platform for developers looking for a layer of abstraction…