Volkswagen Group said Tuesday it will invest $1 billion into EV startup Rivian as part of a broad software development deal that could expand to as much as $5 billion. It’s a boon for Rivian, which has a tenuous path...
You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June,...
Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to crawl a site. Historically, robots.txt file was used to allow search engines to scape a site and...
On Monday, Fearless Fund’s cofounder Ayana Parsons announced that she was stepping down from her leadership role from the firm. She will no longer be its general partner and COO but will be off “enjoying island life” with her family,...
Instagram’s Twitter/X rival Threads is furthering its expansion into the fediverse — the interconnected social network that includes apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, and others running the ActivityPub protocol. On Tuesday, Meta announced that it’s now opening up its beta for...
Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models. This they have as much as admitted, even before the music industry’s new lawsuits against them have gone before a judge. If it...
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As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an opt-in experiment offering access to different AI services in Nightly, the...
London-based internet rights monitoring group NetBlocks has reported a major internet disruption in Kenya following a wave of demonstrations across the country, as police violently cracked down on citizens taking to the streets to protest a government bill to hike...
Joseph Phillips and William Corbera, both of whom come from entrepreneurial backgrounds, have been friends for over a decade. Corbera co-founded RevoPay, a payments processing platform that was acquired by payments solutions firm OSG in 2022. Phillips, for his part,...
