April 17, 2026

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

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Sonos to add support for spatial audio on Apple Music on March 28

March 7, 2023

Sonos announced today that Sonos customers will have access to spatial audio on Apple Music starting March 28. The company says it’s Apple Music’s first partner to bring spatial audio to the home. Spatial audio delivers a multi-dimensional immersive sound experience and is available on the new Sonos Era 300, Arc and Beam (Gen 2). […]

Sonos to add support for spatial audio on Apple Music on March 28 by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Retirement and Travel: Planning Your Dream Adventure

March 7, 2023
It’s not until retirement that people can finally relax and plan the trips they’ve always wanted. Whether you’re about to retire or have already retired, what better way to celebrate…

Plus One raises $50M for its parcel robotics vision systems

March 7, 2023

Another industrial automation firm is bucking VC slowdown, as Plus One Robotics this morning announces a $50 million raise. The Series C brings the San Antonio-based firm’s total funding up to $94 million to date (including a $33 million Series B back in 2021). Scale Venture Partners led the round, which also features participation from […]

Plus One raises $50M for its parcel robotics vision systems by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images

March 7, 2023

Two years ago, Microsoft announced Florence, an AI system that it pitched as a “complete rethinking” of modern computer vision models. Unlike most vision models at the time, Florence was both “unified” and “multimodal,” meaning it could (1) understand language as well as images and (2) handle a range of tasks rather than being limited […]

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch