Streaming media company Plex raises new funds as it nears profitability

January 29, 2024

Media streamer Plex has raised new capital. The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over the years to become a one-stop shop for all your media, including ad-supported streaming, which now accounts for much of its revenue growth. The new round, which has not yet been disclosed, is larger than Plex’s […]

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Dear Taylor Swift, we’re sorry about those explicit deepfakes

January 29, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Hi, Taylor. I can only imagine how you must be feeling after sexually explicit deepfake videos of you went viral on X. Disgusted. Distressed, perhaps. Humiliated, even.  I’m really sorry this is…

Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight

January 29, 2024

Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less privileged, weather forecasting and analysis is getting better and better. Tomorrow.io just released the results from its first two radar satellites, which, thanks to machine learning, turn out to be competitive with […]

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Reddit at $5B seems eminently reasonable

January 29, 2024

Reddit’s feeling out its own IPO valuation is crucial, especially given that hightened regulatory scrutiny is restricting M&A as an exit avenue for unicorns.

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