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Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue, he and Tabular’s other two co-founders, Daniel Weeks and Jason Reid, will be joining Databricks in some capacity. There, they’ll work to unify Tabular’s and Databrick’s customer bases and communities. “Joining Databricks means […]

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The next few weeks could be pivotal for Worldcoin, the controversial eyeball-scanning crypto venture co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, whose operations remain almost entirely shuttered in the European Union following a series of privacy complaints — including in France, Germany, Portugal and Spain. The only EU market where Worldcoin is still scanning eyeballs according to […]

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After a multi-hour outage that took place in the early hours of the morning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot is down again — but this time, it’s not the only AI provider impacted. As of Tuesday morning, both Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity are seeing issues, too. Google’s Gemini still appears to be operating for the time being. […]

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True Fit, the AI-powered size-and-fit personalization tool, has offered its size recommendation solution to thousands of retailers for nearly 20 years. Now, the company is venturing into the generative AI space with “Fit Hub,” a new tool that aims to improve the way online shoppers find clothing that fits their body type. Sizing issues continue […]

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Audio streaming service TuneIn is teaming up with Discord to bring free live radio to the platform. This is TuneIn’s first collaboration with a social platform and one that is likely to help it reach a larger audience. Discord has a vast user base of 200 million, while TuneIn today touts 75 million monthly active […]

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The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice […]

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