February 2024

YouTube rolls out new channel pages for creators on its TV app

February 20, 2024

YouTube is changing the design for creators’ channels on the big screen, the comapny announced today. The changes include more accessible action buttons, like “Subscribe,” a more modern design, and other tweaks that were first introduced for artists’ pages last fall. At the time, YouTube said that artist pages were part of a larger YouTube […]

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YouTube dominates TV streaming in U.S., per Nielsen’s latest report

February 20, 2024

Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens. Netflix, meanwhile, saw 7.9% of TV usage. The new data points to YouTube’s dominance in the TV streaming arena […]

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Bioptimus raises $35 million seed round to develop AI foundational model focused on biology

February 20, 2024

There’s a new generative AI startup based in Paris. But what makes Bioptimus interesting is that it plans to apply everything we’ve collectively learned about AI models over the past few years with a narrow, exclusive focus on biology. The reason why it makes to sense to create a startup focused exclusively on biology is […]

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Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights ‘Fediverse’ vulnerabilities

February 20, 2024

A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey, and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the Fediverse, is open to abuse. Over the past several days, attackers have targeted smaller Mastodon servers, taking advantage of open registrations to automate the creation of spam accounts. Mastodon founder […]

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Transforming document understanding and insights with generative AI

February 20, 2024
At some point over the last two decades, productivity applications enabled humans (and machines!) to create information at the speed of digital—faster than any person could possibly consume or understand it. Modern inboxes and document folders are filled with information: digital haystacks with needles of insight that too often remain undiscovered. Generative AI is an…