Thursday, April 11, 2024

An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes:
An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more  —  In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen calls its new platform, which tackles contract management beyond …



Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent to teens via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out in the coming months (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent to teens via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out in the coming months  —  Obscured photos and warnings will discourage users from exchanging nude photos with potential strangers



Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI  —  - OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe  — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media



Sources: Foxconn is considering a new rotating CEO system, a major and unusual overhaul to nurture talent; a source says the plan is a response to investors (Yimou Lee/Reuters)

Yimou Lee / Reuters:
Sources: Foxconn is considering a new rotating CEO system, a major and unusual overhaul to nurture talent; a source says the plan is a response to investors  —  Apple supplier Foxconn is considering introducing a rotating chief executive system in a major overhaul of its management structure designed …



Sunday, April 7, 2024

Elon Musk says X is "lifting all restrictions" it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block "certain popular accounts" and is defying the court's ruling (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)

Anthony Boadle / Reuters:
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court's ruling  —  Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …



Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)

Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg:
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute  —  - The centerpiece is money for ‘technological infrastructure’  — Canada has yet to pass law regulating artificial intelligence



Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6  —  Apple's search for a bold new product category is back on, and it includes a foray into robots.



A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS  —  Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January  —  Huawei Technologies may be close to succeeding where Microsoft …



Saturday, April 6, 2024

Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising  —  - The accelerator is requiring limited partners invest in all three of its new funds, a somewhat bold move in the current environment.



Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text  —  OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …



A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles (Lewis Gordon/The Ringer)

Lewis Gordon / The Ringer:
A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles  —  A scene as still and pure as it is confounding: towers stretching up, flags billowing gently in the wind, stone walkways appearing to defy the principles of architecture.



US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)

Sarah Kessler / New York Times : US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; Com...