RepAir recently raised a $15 million extension to its Series A.

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Spotify announced on Thursday that it expanded the availability of its AI Playlist feature to more than 40 additional markets, including countries in Spotify's AI Playlist feature is now available in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. 

Anthropic is launching a new program to study 'model welfare.' The lab believes future AI could be more human-like — and thus need special considerations.

TikTok is rolling out support for ALT text for photo posts to make content more accessible for users with visual and cognitive impairments. The company

Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. The

The nearly 20-year-old company credits is continued success to the rise of interest in chess and its ability to meet players where they are.

Netflix just introduced a new way to experience subtitles that eliminates the need to read audio cues like “door slams” or “phone rings.”  Announced on Netflix now has dialogue-only subtitles that only displays spoken words without audio cues and other context. 

In an ongoing antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission says that Meta has a monopoly on “personal social networking services” and should have to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. Throughout the proceedings, there have been several internal messages and…

Leading AI data centers in the recent future may be hugely expensive and energy-sucking, according to a new study.

Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for business owners, has acquired Maza, a finance app aimed at Spanish speakers in the U.S., for $40

The funeral of Pope Francis will be livestreamed on YouTube on Saturday. Pope Francis passed away earlier this week at age 88 due to a stroke and cardiac

Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting

Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects. The cuts impact

We’re thrilled to announce that Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder and CEO of Aetherflux, will be joining us for a rare, intimate fireside

OpenAI is reportedly building its own X-like social network. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed, The Verge reports. A social app would give OpenAI its…

OpenAI is reportedly planning for its forthcoming 'open' AI reasoning model to 'hand off' to the company's models in the cloud for complex queries.

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5

Evernote founder Phil Libin is ready to liven up your video meetings. The entrepreneur's video startup, mmhmm, launched in 2020 amid the pandemic, on

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