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Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announce Thrive AI Health, a new startup backed by OpenAI and Thrive Global to build a “hyper-personalized AI health coach” — A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion … | Financial Times: |
Australia, backed by the US, the UK, Japan, and other allies, accuses a Chinese state-backed hacking group of targeting government and private sector networks — US, UK, Germany and Japan back report alleging APT40 conducted ‘malicious’ cyber espionage activities
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Amazon announces an updated $79 Echo Spot alarm clock, with a revamped design and improved audio quality, the first update to the device since its 2017 launch — Amazon on Monday announced a new $79 Echo Spot alarm clock with a revamped design and improved audio quality.
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Etsy CEO Josh Silverman says Etsy is positioning itself “to answer the call for original goods and real people” by overhauling its policies and adding labels — When Etsy launched almost two decades ago, the site attracted artisans and craft makers, who finally had a place online …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Etsy News, Fast Company, and Modern Retail
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Spotify adds the ability for users to leave comments on podcasts, expanding on polls and Q&As; comments will be private by default, and creators can opt out — The company already lets Spotify podcasters offer polls and Q&As, so this new feature could give creators new ways to interact with their audiences.| Rachyl Jones / Fortune: |
Chinese self-driving cars from WeRide, Apollo, AutoX, Pony.ai, and DiDi have driven 1.8M miles in California since 2017, collecting data with little scrutiny — ON FEB. 1 LAST YEAR, Montana residents gawked upwards at a large white object hovering in the sky that looked to be another moon.
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Sources: HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, raised a $2.5B fund; the new RMB fund can more easily invest in sensitive tech than its prior $9B fund raised in USD — Neil Shen's HongShan creates renminbi vehicle with more scope to invest in sensitive technologies than previous $9bn fund| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
The FTC bans teen messaging app NGL from serving users under 18, a first; NGL agreed to pay $5M and stop marketing to kids and teens to settle the FTC lawsuit — The groundbreaking FTC settlement stems from claims popular app NGL overhyped its anti-bullying efforts and engaged in aggressive marketing to kids and teens.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
NFT and metaverse content creation company Infinite Reality raised $350M at a $5.1B valuation and acquires Roblox game developer Landvault for $450M in stock — Infinite Reality, the company working on metaverse-like technologies, has raised $350 million and acquired Roblox game developer Landvault for $450 million.
More: Tech.eu and The Infinite Reality
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Captions, which uses AI to let people create and edit videos, raised $60M led by Index Ventures at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $100M — Index Ventures, Jared Leto are among the backers in the $60 million financing for Captions. — Captions, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
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Meta plans to remove more Facebook and Instagram posts that attack “Zionism” or threaten “Zionists” when the term is conflated with Jewish people or Israelis — Company will pull down ‘Zionism’ posts when used generally to threaten Jewish people
More: Reuters, Jerusalem Post, Meta, and World Jewish Congress
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Quora's Poe launches Previews, letting users create web apps like data visualizations, games, and animations using more than one LLM like Llama 3 and GPT-4o — Poe, Quora's subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o … Sponsor Posts
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