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TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8. The photo-sharing app launched in testing in Canada, Australia, and Vietnam last year. The company is notifying TikTok Notes users of its decision to retire the app and is directing them to ByteDance-owned Lemon8, which isn’t surprising given that the apps are quite… Continua a leggere TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor TikTok Notes

The open source repository of genetic data will delete its banks of data on April 30, its co-founder confirms.

Skylight, a startup taking on TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just 10 weeks of active development. The app, which is backed by Mark Cuban and others, is now one of many to build on top of the AT Protocol — the same technology… Continua a leggere Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology

Meta’s VP of AI research, Joelle Pineau, is planning to leave the company, she announced in a post on Facebook Tuesday. Pineau said she’s leaving in May after more than two years overseeing FAIR, Meta’s internal AI research lab led by Yann LeCun. Pineau’s exit comes as Meta ramps up its AI efforts, with the… Continua a leggere Meta’s head of AI research plans to leave the company

Zelle is shutting down its stand-alone app on Tuesday, according to a company blog post. This news might be alarming if you’re one of the over 150 million customers in the U.S. who use Zelle for person-to-person payments. But only about 2% of transactions take place via Zelle’s app, which is why the company is… Continua a leggere Zelle is shutting down its app, but you probably don’t need to worry

Rather than divide people into demographic buckets, Northwind Climate analyzes survey responses for behavioral clues.

The venture capital firm is reportedly in talks to invest in TikTok as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors looking to buy out TikTok from ByteDance, according to the Financial Times.  TikTok is once again slated to be banned in the U.S. on April 5 unless its Chinese-based owner sells… Continua a leggere Andreessen Horowitz is trying to nab a piece of TikTok with Oracle, report says

Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day.  Meet PokéTax, a game that helps make tax filing quite fun. Instead of tax forms, users take on Tax Trainers — gym leaders — representing different parts of a tax form, such as income, deductions, and credits. Each leader asks… Continua a leggere An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokémon Showdown game

OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models. AI models are essentially complex prediction engines. Trained on… Continua a leggere Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books

Rivian delivered just 8,640 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company’s worst quarterly mark since the end of 2022. But the company says the slow start won’t impact its overall guidance for the year — it still expects to deliver between 46,000 and 51,000 EVs by the end of 2025. The company… Continua a leggere Rivian starts a challenging year with a big slip in deliveries