Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims that its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, deliver advertisements. Reuters report. Google did not admit wrongdoing in settlement of the class-action case, which accused the company “Unlawfully and knowingly intercepting and recording confidential communications of persons without their consent and subsequently…
Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun to appear in replies to ChatGPT. XAI launched GrowWikipedia in October after Musk complained that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters soon noted that while many articles appeared to be Copied directly from WikipediaGrow Wikipedia too claimed Pornography contributed to the AIDS…
We’re about to take our first real look at the results Recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Googleaccording to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman reports that Apple plans to announce a new version of Siri in the second half of February. Using Google’s Gemini AI model, this Siri update will reportedly be the first to…
If your Gmail account is not working properly today, you are not alone. official status dashboard Google Workspace reveals that the problems began around 5 a.m. Saturday morning, with users experiencing both “misclassification of emails in the inbox and additional spam warnings.” For me, this meant that my primary inbox was filled with messages that…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has withdrawn its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The Winklevoss twins were donors to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and also supported his family’s business ventures. In a joint filing On Friday, the SEC and Gemini asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit,…
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos felt different this yearAnd not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI has come to dominate the conversation to such an extent that traditional topics like climate change and global poverty have been eclipsed, and CEOs are not backing down. There was…
TikTok’s parent company is ByteDance signed an agreement The deal to form a majority US-owned joint venture with a group of non-Chinese investors to keep the social app operating in the US ends a six-year-long political saga that began in 2020 when President Donald Trump tried to ban the app over national security concerns during…
Vimeo, the video-hosting platform, is laying off some of its global employees a report From Business Insider. This step comes shortly after company acquisition by Italian tech group Bending Spoons, which bought it last year for $1.38 billion in an all-cash deal. Bending Spoons confirmed the layoffs to BI, but did not say how many…
LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced Raising $100 million funding at a valuation of $1 billion. This round comes ten months after LiveKit Previous FundraisingThe round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors including Altimeter Capital Management, Hanabi Capital and Redpoint Ventures. LiveKit…
The open-source project is owned by the creators of VLLM. announced He spun off the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, and raised $150 million in seed funding at a valuation of $800 million. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirmed TechCrunch. earlier reporting That vLLM has raised capital…
