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WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing ...

WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org banned ho...

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Marvel Fusion lands $70M for laser-powered fusion bet

Marvel Fusion lands $70M for laser-powered fusion bet

Marvel Fusion is one of several companies pursuing what’s known as inertial conf...

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Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers in residence program

Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new em...

When seed-focused Pear VC raised a $432 million fund last year, the firm co-foun...

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Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B

Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, ra...

Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experienc...

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OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit

OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO ...

OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, hav...

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Sam Altman reportedly poised to get equity in OpenAI for the first time

Sam Altman reportedly poised to get equity in OpenAI fo...

Following the abrupt departure of OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, CEO Sam Altman is r...

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Zuckerberg chats with AI clone as human creator looks on in year’s weirdest demo

Zuckerberg chats with AI clone as human creator looks o...

The demo showcased AI Studio, a platform for designing custom chatbots. © 2024 T...

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13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to

13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying a...

Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply t...

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Meta discontinues Quest 2 and Quest Pro

Meta discontinues Quest 2 and Quest Pro

With the budget Quest 3S now up for preorder, Meta will no longer sell the Quest...

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Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until raising $12M to give them long-term memory

Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until rai...

The strategy is to create consumer agents, but then use those to inform how they...

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Meta AI’s genAI ‘Imagine’ features expand across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

Meta AI’s genAI ‘Imagine’ features expand across Facebo...

With the update, users will be able to use prompts to generate AI photos directl...

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Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots

Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots

Meta is now allowing businesses to create ads that, when clicked, bring up a cha...

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Meta AI gets celebrity voices and lip-synced translations

Meta AI gets celebrity voices and lip-synced translations

Meta is bringing a voice mode to its AI assistant, Meta AI, along with an Meta A...

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Canva adds new abilities for app developers and improves discoverability

Canva adds new abilities for app developers and improve...

Canva just announced new enhancements to its developer platform, such as includi...

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Meta AI can now understand and edit your photos

Meta AI can now understand and edit your photos

Meta announced that Meta AI will now be able to help you edit photos using AI te...

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Meta’s Hyperscape lets you scan and explore real-life spaces in VR

Meta’s Hyperscape lets you scan and explore real-life s...

Onstage during its Connect 2024 developer conference, Meta showed Hyperspace, a ...