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Earlier this year, Meta introduced a set of AI characters, including those based on real-life celebs including the likes of Paris Hilton, Mr. Beast, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Charli D’Amelio, Snoop Dog, and others, which users could chat with across Meta’s apps. Today, the company announced its 28 AI characters are fully rolled out across […]

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Not to be outdone by Google’s Gemini launch, Meta’s rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web, Imagine with Meta, that allows users to create images by describing them in natural language. Similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, Imagine with Meta, which is powered by Meta’s existing Emu image generation […]

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U.S. senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has warned in a letter to the Justice Department that unidentified governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through their push notifications. The letter says his office received a tip last year that government agencies in foreign countries were “demanding” push notification records from the tech giants. Push […]

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Many earth-changing deep tech solutions are being commercialized, and successful exits continue to increase in number and size.

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The software market isn’t exactly suffering, so why are some enterprise software vendors trading so cheaply? The answer is more obvious than you’d think.

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U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has warned that unknown hackers broke into the servers of a federal government agency by taking advantage of a previously known vulnerability in software that no longer receives updates — meaning the agency couldn’t have patched it even if it wanted to. On Tuesday, CISA released an advisory detailing two separate […]

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Masha Bucher Contributor Share on X Masha Bucher is the founder and general partner of Day One Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-focused startups and leads their communications. Right now, in late 2023, the IPO market is halted, and late-stage deals rarely happen because funds and entrepreneurs cannot find common ground on […]

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