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Snapchat’s AI chatbot is now free for all global users, says the AI will later ‘Snap’ you back
Snapchat’s AI chatbot is now opening up to a global audience, the company announced today at its Snap Partner Summit. Initially launched in...
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Snapchat launches AR Lenses powered by generative AI, starting with a new ‘Cosmic Lens’
Snapchat is introducing AR Lenses powered by generative AI, the company announced at its Snap Partner Summit today. To start, the platform is...
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Snapchat’s AR technology comes to the real world with ‘AR Mirrors’
Snap today offered an update on its AR Enterprise Services (ARES), the company’s recently announced initiative focused on providing AR...
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Snap is expanding its AR features to 16 additional music festivals
Snap is expanding its partnership with events company Live Nation to bring AR-focused features to 16 new music festivals. These features include...
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Snapchat adds Public Stories, expands revenue share program for creators
Snapchat is rolling out additional features to help creators get noticed and make a living. Over a year ago, the platform piloted a program...
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Snapchat unveils new Story modes, updates to Snap Map, enhanced Bitmoji and more
At its Snap Partner Summit today in Santa Monica, Snapchat unveiled a series of new features coming to its app. The company is rolling out new...
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Snapchat+ subscription now has more than 3 million users
Snap said today that its Snapchat+ paid plan has more than 3 million users. At its Snap Partner Summit event, the company added that in the coming...
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Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station is here to keep your lights on
What do you do when the lights go out? When the snow became too much for the power lines as a kid, I remember candles and Primus stoves. In...
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Netflix blames a technical bug for its ‘Love is Blind’ livestream issues, says it will try live again
Netflix’s flubbed foray into livestreaming was a topic of discussion during the streamer’s first-quarter earnings on Tuesday with...
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Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models
Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended...
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Software investors must (re)learn these 3 ideas before getting into deep tech
Champ Suthipongchai Contributor Share on Twitter Champ...
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Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture
There have been more than 171,000 people in the tech industry laid off so far this year, according to data tracked by layoffs.fyi , but those...
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Climate tech VC firm closes $300M fund after LPs push for broader investment opportunities
Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter , but don’t count it out just yet. Amid a backdrop of depressing figures from much...
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Google offers billing choice for UK Play Store devs in bid to settle antitrust prone
Google has proposed letting developers offering apps through its UK Play mobile app store to have the option to use alternative payment processors...
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Coro raises $75M at a $575M valuation to grow its all-in-one cybersecurity platform
Simplification has been a big theme in the enterprise world in the last couple of years. If a company can consolidate multiple point solutions...
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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI
While Generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story. There is also the process of...
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Volkswagen pumps 1B euros into China electric vehicle center
Auto Shanghai, which is underway this week, is a yearly opportunity for carmakers and auto suppliers to flex their muscles and show their...
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Netflix’s ad-supported plan gets support for 1080p quality and two concurrent streams
Netflix is upgrading its ad-supported plan in terms of streaming quality and concurrent streams. The company said users subscribed to this plan...
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Tesla cuts prices for Model 3, Model Y on eve of Q1 earnings
Tesla has cut the price of its Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles for the second time this month. Now, Tesla’s most popular models will...
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Another round of mass layoffs expected at Meta this week
Meta, formerly Facebook, is expected to issue another round of mass layoffs Wednesday, according to a report from Vox that cites “several...
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The Polestar 4 replaces a rear window with a hi-def screen
Polestar introduced the Polestar 4, the second SUV in its lineup, at Auto Shanghai 2023. Actually, it’s technically an SUV coupé,...
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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO
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Einride brings its electric trucks to UK freight sector in partnership with PepsiCo
Electric and autonomous trucking company Einride is expanding to the U.K., representing the latest in a line of European market expansions....
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There was just one fintech unicorn birth in the first quarter
Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights’...
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Europe spins up AI research hub to apply accountability rules on Big Tech
As the European Union gears up to enforce a major reboot of its digital rulebook in a matter of months, a new dedicated research unit is being...