Google Chrome becomes a ‘picture-in-picture’ app
Instead of opening the user’s actual browser or a WebView, Custom Tabs let users remain in their app while browsing.
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US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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May 2024
Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts. Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the […]
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Harnessing the Power of YouTube SEO — How to Rank Your Videos Higher and Gain More Subscribers
If you want to build a successful YouTube presence and ensure your content reaches the right people, YouTube SEO is essential. You can increase engagement and subscriber base by combining high-quality video with metadata and on-page optimization.
Former OpenAI Board Member Reveals Why She Had CEO Sam Altman Fired
New details have emerged about the board decision that shook the tech world.
Want to Be Better at Decision Making? Here are 5 Steps to Better Data-Driven Business Decisions
You often hear entrepreneurs say, “We don’t know what we don’t know,” when talking about deficiencies in data gathering. But when you have data in silos, it’s more a case of “We don’t know what we DO know.”
Abercrombie & Fitch Reported Its Highest First Quarter in Company History. Here’s How It Made a Comeback.
Quarterly revenue was up over 22% from the same time last year.
After co-founder’s murder at the hands of Hamas, cloud startup Firefly raises $23M
A startup called Firefly tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenues four-fold in 2023. The firm’s latest success comes on the heels of tragedy, as co-founder CTO Joseph […]
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Mistral releases its first generative AI model for code
Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and reportedly valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Codestral — which is designed to help developers write and interact with code, like the many other code-generating models out there — was trained on a data set of over […]
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Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund. Pinterest teamed up with Shopify’s Build Black & Narrative program to allow small business owners from or who serve underrepresented backgrounds to now apply for the Creator Inclusion Fund. Previously, only traditional content creators applied. This is a new iteration of the fund, which […]
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The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV designed to hook young buyers
Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out — or at least showing off — four all-electric vehicle models since 2022. The latest is the 2025 Optiq, a mid-size crossover that could finally snag the young, hipster customers […]
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