Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more — Apple Fitness Plus is getting a fresh makeover in the Strava app. The two companies just announced they're collaborating to revamp …
Foreign smartphone shipments, including iPhones, to China fell 47.4% YoY in November, following a 44.25% YoY drop in October, marking four months of decline — Shipments to China of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone, fell by 47.4% in November from a year earlier …
A look at the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act, which was formally introduced in Texas legislature and has very broad negligence liability for developers — Texas' onerous AI regulation is formally introduced — Happy new year, everyone. — Introduction
Asus, Samsung, and MSI separately unveil the world's first 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitors, offering 4K OLED at 240Hz, without giving release dates or pricing — 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors seem to be like buses: you wait ages for one and then three turn up at once.
Rembrand, which offers AI tools to add product placements in social media videos, raised a $23M Series A and plans to expand to CTV content and add a free tier — Exit Content Preview … The startup began with YouTube and expanded to LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram.
In 2024, warning calls about catastrophic AI risks were drowned out by the tech industry's promotion of a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI — For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race.
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally — Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data.
PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups fell from a peak of 8,315 in 2021 to 6,175 in 2024; 9 firms raised 50%+ of the $71B raised by VCs in 2024 — Risk-averse financial institutions concentrate money on biggest Silicon Valley VCs in trend that threatens smaller groups
Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to 70%+, as it focuses on its core online business — - Sun Art had attracted interest from other private equity firms … China's e-commerce pioneer said it could receive gross proceeds …
Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests — Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of the world's largest publishing companies …
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