IT総合 The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you
Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to tur...
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IT総合 IT総合 Coinbase now lets you buy crypto with Apple Pay in third-party apps
Coinbase announced an integration with Apple Pay on Monday, allowing app makers to build the ability to buy crypto with ...
IT総合 Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features
Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the...
IT総合 Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars’ X accounts to The Onion
The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jon...
IT総合 Inflection CEO says it’s done trying to make next generation AI models
Just last year, Inflection AI was as hot as a startup could be, releasing best-in-class AI models it claimed could outpe...
IT総合 Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Adve...
IT総合 Apple is reportedly building a more conversational Siri powered by LLMs
Apple is developing a new version of its voice assistant, Siri, powered by advanced large language models (LLMs), accord...
IT総合 DOJ: Google must sell Chrome to end monopoly
The United States Department of Justice argued Wednesday that Google should divest its Chrome browser as part of a remed...
IT総合 Nvidia’s CEO defends his moat as AI labs change how they improve their AI models
Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday, but that...
IT総合 Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course
AI labs traveling the road to super-intelligent systems are realizing they might have to take a detour. “AI scalin...
IT総合 Meta hires Salesforce’s CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead new business AI group
Meta hired Salesforce’s CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new organization building AI tools for businesses that us...
IT総合 Ben Affleck tells actors and writers not to worry about AI
Unions representing Hollywood actors and writers went on strike last year to secure protections against AI systems takin...
IT総合 Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team
San Francisco’s mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the c...
IT総合 ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac’s desktop apps
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is starting to work with other apps on your computer. On Thursday, the startup announced the Chat...
IT総合 Don Lemon officially leaves Elon Musk’s X
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said on Wednesday he is leaving Elon Musk’s X, a decision made less than a year after ...
IT総合 Don Lemon leaves X, the platform he nearly had a video show with
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said on Wednesday he is leaving Elon Musk’s X, a decision made less than a year after ...
IT総合 Apple reportedly releasing a wall-mounted smart home tablet in 2025 – and yes, it does AI
Apple is gearing up to announce a new smart home hub, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As early as March 2025...
IT総合 23andMe cuts 40% of staff in restructuring
23andMe announced on Monday it would cut 40% of its workforce, representing more than 200 employees, as part of a restru...
IT総合 OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
Another one of OpenAI’s lead safety researchers, Lilian Weng, announced on Friday she is departing the startup. We...
IT総合 Block scales back TIDAL investment and shutters TBD in favor of Bitcoin mining
Jack Dorsey’s Block is scaling back its investment in TIDAL, the music streaming platform once owned by Jay-Z, acc...
IT総合 Crypto CEO kidnapped in Toronto, released after paying $1M ransom
The CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency firm WonderFi was kidnapped and held for ransom on Wednesday, according to CBC. Dean ...
IT総合 The other election night winner: Perplexity
On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time s...
IT総合 X reinstates SwapYourVote’s account after suspending it as spam
In the final days leading up to the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk’s X suspended the official account of a ...
IT総合 Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robo...
IT総合 Apple users can soon upgrade to ChatGPT Plus within the Settings app
Apple products are getting an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT in December when iOS 18.2 rolls out, which should ...
IT総合 ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI’s ‘Google killer’ yet
OpenAI's search offers a glimpse of what an AI-search interface could one day look like. But it's too impractical as a d...
IT総合 500 Amazon employees reportedly ask AWS CEO to reverse return-to-office policy
More than 500 Amazon employees sent a letter on Wednesday to AWS CEO Matt Garman, urging the executive to reverse the co...
IT総合 Narada AI’s enterprise agent will use workplace tools for you
There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assis...
IT総合 Brightwave’s AI agent helps asset managers find signal, and it’s fundraising fast
The finance world is constantly looking for signal: indicators of a buying or selling opportunity in the markets. Bright...
IT総合 This veteran couldn’t share 3D scans of a burnt naval ship, so he created a startup that can
In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out onboard a naval ship docked in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS B...