OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is raking in about $13 billion in annual revenue, 70% of which comes from ordinary people who pay $20 a month to chat with the AI. According to Financial TimesThis is pretty strange when you consider that ChatGate has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are…
Google Meet finally has one AI-powered makeup filters For those days when you don’t feel like wearing real makeup before a meeting. The new capability will help Google Meet compete with other video-conferencing apps that already have virtual makeup features, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Google Meet offers 12 different makeup options to choose from,…
Security researchers have discovered that more than half of all geostationary satellites in Earth orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate and military information, leaving this data wide open to spying. Researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent $800 on an off-the-shelf satellite receiver and pointed it skyward for three years….
Grindr’s majority owner is fighting to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline caused personal financial distress, according to one. report from semaphore, The owners in question are Raymond Zage, a former hedge fund manager and American expatriate who now lives in Singapore, and James Lu, a Chinese-American entrepreneur and former Amazon…
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StravaThe 16-year-old fitness tracking app is preparing to go public. Financial Times report, CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list “at some point”, and is eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The last valuation of the company was backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV and Jackson Square Ventures $2.2 billion…
Thinking Machine LabThe AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Muratti has lost one of its co-founders due to Meta. Wall Street Journal report AI researcher Andrew Tulloch announced his departure in a message to employees on Friday. A Thinking Machines Labs spokesperson confirmed Tulloch’s move to the WSJ, saying he had “decided to…
Marc Benioff has long been a liberal-leaning San Francisco billionaire, a tech executive who funded homeless services. Donation in the city’s public schools, and hosted a Hillary Clinton fundraiser. But in a new, broader scope phone interview With The New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political shift that surprised even his…
AI companies have been making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results have been wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announces it is launching Anthropix Cloud For all 500,000 employees. The same day, the Australian government forced Deloitte to return a contract because their AI-generated report was full of fake citations. This is a perfect…
Nevada regulators say Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a tunneling and infrastructure firm, has repeatedly violated state environmental rules, even though the company has agreed not to do so. The Boring Company, which is in the process of expanding a tunnel network under Las Vegas, is accused of nearly 800 violations. According According to a report…
