### Title Instagram's co-founders launch new feature for personalized news app Artifact ### Important Facts - 🚀 Instagram's co-founders have launched a new feature for their personalized news aggregator, Artifact. - 🌐 The new feature allows users to share any link from the web and view a personalized feed of links based on their interests. - 💥 This move puts Artifact in direct competition with social apps like X and Threads that focus on sharing text or links. ### Secondary Facts - 🔍 Artifact was originally built as a news aggregator that tracked, summarized, and commented on the news. - 📱 The new feature expands Artifact's functionality beyond news tracking and makes it more versatile.

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### Title Treefera secures $2.2M funding to address credibility issues in carbon credits using AI ### Important Facts - 🌳 Treefera raises $2.2M in funding to tackle the credibility problem in carbon credits with the help of AI - 💰 Disney, Shell, Gucci, and other major companies discovered that they had purchased worthless carbon credits earlier this year - 🌍 Verra, the world's largest issuer of voluntary carbon credits, sold credits for forests that were not at risk of destruction, rendering them valueless - 🔥 Fallout occurred as a result of the scandal, leading to the resignation of Verra's CEO and changes in their verification methodology ### Secondary Facts - 🏢 The collaborative investigation exposed the sale of non-endangered forest credits by Verra - ✍️ Following the controversy, Verra rewrote its verification methodology

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### Title Amazon introduces generative AI tools to simplify product listing process for sellers ### Important Facts - 🚀 Amazon launches new generative AI tools for sellers - 🛍️ Tools aim to simplify the process of creating product listings - 💡 Capabilities include generating captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details - ➕ Sellers can enhance existing product descriptions using AI instead of starting from scratch ### Secondary Facts - 🔧 Tools designed specifically for sellers on Amazon platform

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### Title Adobe starts compensating Stock contributors for Firefly training content ### Important Facts - 💰 Adobe is now paying bonuses to photographers and illustrators whose content is used to train Firefly, its generative AI model. - 📸 Firefly was trained on content from the public domain or through Adobe Stock, the company's stock image service. - 💼 Photographers and illustrators could lose business if users choose to generate unique images with Firefly instead of downloading existing stock photos. ### Secondary Facts - 🔥 Firefly is a generative AI model developed by Adobe. - 🌐 The content used to train Firefly includes material in the public domain and rights-owned content from Adobe Stock.

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### Title Adobe's Firefly generative AI models now generally available, with new pricing plans ### Important Facts - 🔥 Adobe's Firefly generative AI models are now generally and commercially available in Creative Cloud, Adobe Express, and Adobe Experience Cloud - 🔥 Features like generative fill and generative expand in Photoshop are now accessible without installing the beta version - 🔥 Firefly is also launched as a standalone web app, gaining official status within the Adobe product portfolio ### Secondary Facts - 💰 Pricing plans for Firefly are now available - 💻 Firefly was previously in beta for 176 days before becoming generally available

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### Title Stability AI Launches AI-Powered Music Generator ### Important Facts - 🚀 Stability AI, a London-based startup, has launched an AI-powered music generator. - 💡 The music generator is based on the open source image-generating AI model called Stable Diffusion. - 🎵 The model, named Dance Diffusion, can generate songs and sound effects when given a text description. - 🌐 Stability AI released Dance Diffusion quietly about a year ago. - 🔊 The generated songs and sound effects are created based on the provided text descriptions. ### Secondary Facts - 🏢 Stability AI is known for its open source image-generating AI model, Stable Diffusion.

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### Title Challenges Faced by AI Startups in Raising Series B Funding ### Important Facts - 📉 Raising a Series B has become exceptionally difficult due to the slowdown in venture funding. - 💰 Funding rounds for generative AI companies are beginning to slow down. - 🤖 It is becoming more difficult for true AI startups to stand out among the increasing number of startups calling themselves "AI companies." ### Secondary Facts - 🌊 The venture spigot has slowed to a trickle in the last year. - 🚀 VCs have been investing heavily in the AI space.

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### Title Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to allow customers to customize their AI ### Important Facts - Salesforce announced Einstein Copilot Studio at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco - Einstein Copilot Studio is a tool that enables customers to customize the Salesforce base Einstein GPT and Einstein Copilot offerings - The tool consists of three elements: prompt builder, skills builder, and model builder - Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, provided this information about Einstein Copilot Studio ### Secondary Facts - The announcement was made today - The Dreamforce customer conference took place in San Francisco

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### Title SQream raises $45M to expand its GPU-based big data analytics platform ### Important Facts - 💰 Israeli data analytics startup SQream secures $45 million in funding - 🚀 SQream's GPU-based big data analytics platform enables processing and querying of large datasets - 🌍 The world's increasing reliance on AI and the growing amount of data produced daily contribute to SQream's success ### Secondary Facts - 💡 SQream made a bet on GPUs as a cornerstone for big data analytics back in 2010 - 📈 Funding will be used to support SQream's continued growth and expansion

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