Major U.S. Airlines Are Suing the Government Over ‘Capricious’ Fee Transparency Law
Southwest Airlines opted not to join the other airlines in the lawsuit.
Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition […]
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Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google
Mobile app developers, including Patreon and Grammarly, are already integrating with Gemini Nano, its smallest AI model, the company announced during its I/O developer keynote on Tuesday. The companies, along with other select developers were invited to work with Gemini Nano through an early access program announced last year, the company said. In the coming […]
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Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature
As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer.
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Google Introduces Its New Project Astra AI Assistant at Tuesday’s I/O Event — Here’s What Else You Missed
AI overviews are coming to search for everyone in the U.S. this week.
‘This Year Almost Broke Me’: Tom Schwartz Reveals ‘Scandoval’ Almost Shut Down His Restaurant After Losing 80% of His Business
As Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” ends its 11th season, longtime cast member, Tom Schwartz, and Schwartz & Sandy’s business partner, Greg Morris, open up about how public scandal almost shuttered their restaurant — and how they kept it afloat.
LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education
Google says it’s developed a new family of generative AI models “fine-tuned” for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google’s Gemini models — are designed to “conversationally” tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says. LearnLM is already powering features […]
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Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube
The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
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Here’s How I Determine If I’m Getting Value Out of X (and How You Can, Too)
Don’t let low-value accounts and promotional material bog down your time on X (formerly Twitter). Here are some strategies to curate content, engage with quality people and maximize your time.
How This CEO Turned 99 No’s Into a $500 Million Sleep Tech Powerhouse
Eight Sleep’s Matteo Franceschetti reveals his journey from nightmarish rejection to dream-like motivation.
Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during its I/O 2024 by its own count. CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the ‘hard work’ of counting for us. No surprise, of course, that the topic took […]
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