October 2023

Tofu automates content creation for massive omnichannel B2B marketing campaigns

October 19, 2023

Creating the many types of content needed for large-scale B2B campaigns often result in marketers juggling dozens of tools. This makes it difficult to ensure cohesive messaging across their emails, landing pages and other materials, say the founders of Tofu. The startup wants to solve that problem, especially for small marketing teams, with a generative […]

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OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector

October 19, 2023

OpenAI has “discussed and debated quite extensively” when to release a tool that can determine whether an image was made with DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s generative AI art model, or not. But the startup isn’t close to making a decision anytime soon. That’s according to Sandhini Agarwal, an OpenAI researcher who focuses on safety and policy, […]

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Discord kills Gas, the anonymous compliments app it bought nine months ago

October 19, 2023

Discord is shutting down Gas, the anonymous compliments-based social media app it acquired back in January for an undisclosed sum. The app will officially shut down on November 7, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The news of the shut down was first reported by The Information. “We can confirm that the Gas app […]

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With X, Musk is playing the bottoms-up game

October 19, 2023

If you think Musk is ruining Twitter, then yeah, he is. That’s because he’s not in it for Twitter. He’s in it for X, and the current lovers of the platform are collateral damage.

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Waymo’s new simulator helps researchers train more realistic agents

October 19, 2023

Autonomous vehicle companies use simulators to train their self-driving systems and teach them how to react to “agents” — things like pedestrians, cyclists, traffic signals and other cars. To have a truly advanced AV system, those agents need to behave and react realistically to the AV and to each other. Creating and training intelligent agents […]

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FCC begins second quest for net neutrality

October 19, 2023

The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today, with a proposed rule prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or throttling certain internet traffic. While it still faces a legal and political battle, the new rule benefits from 8 years of hindsight. In its meeting today, the FCC […]

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