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Airbyte, a low-code/no-code open source data integration platform, has launched Airbyte 1.0, focusing on AI as an addition to its own tools and to help users build AI-based services. The company raised a total of $181.2 million, including a $150 million Series B round. Airbyte aims to help enterprises use data to power generative AI products.
AIAirbyte | Rating: 58 | 2024-09-24 03:00:36 PM |
Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, has launched a wallpaper app called Panels on iOS and Android, where he's curating high-quality digital wallpapers from artists. To access high-resolution wallpapers without ads, users need to pay $50 per year or $12 per month. Brownlee has almost twenty million YouTube subscribers, making him a influential figure in the tech review community.
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A new nonprofit organization called the Social Web Foundation has been launched, co-founded by Evan Prodromou, the co-author and current editor of ActivityPub. The organization aims to expand the fediverse, improve ActivityPub and the user experience, inform policymakers, and educate people about the fediverse. Meta recently adopted ActivityPub for its latest app, Threads.
AIFoundation | Rating: 48 | 2024-09-24 02:40:48 PM |
Kian Katanforoosh, CEO of Workera, was mentored by renowned researcher Andrew Ng, who served as his graduate school advisor at Stanford. Ng is now the Chairman of Workera. Katanforoosh is trying to automate mentorship through an AI agent called Sage, which can assess an employee's skill level.
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Reflect Orbital, a startup, is developing satellites that deploy large mirrors to reflect sunlight onto specific points on the ground. The satellites would be in sun-synchronous orbit, following the terminator, to provide additional sunlight before dawn and after dusk. The company's cofounders are CEO Ben Nowack and CTO Tristan Semm.
AISatellite | Rating: 42 | 2024-09-24 02:00:33 PM |
TikTok is launching a new keyword-based search solution, TikTok Search Ads Campaign, allowing brands to target its search results page and giving them full control over their content's appearance. This move poses a challenge to Google's search ads business, particularly among young users.
AITikTok | Rating: 42 | 2024-09-24 02:00:33 PM |
Snapchat has partnered with Google Cloud to power its My AI chatbot with generative AI models from Gemini AI. The chatbot will be able to understand and process different types of information, including text, audio, images, and videos. This expanded partnership allows Snapchat to leverage Google's multimodal capabilities, enabling features like image and video processing. The chatbot was initially powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, but has now shifted to Google's generative AI models.
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Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone have agreed to acquire Smartsheet, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) workplace collaboration and management platform, for $8.4 billion in cash. The deal values Smartsheet's shares at a 41% premium over its 90-day average closing share price. Shareholders would receive approximately $56.50 per share. Smartsheet has a 45-day 'go-shop' period to solicit alternative acquisition offers.
M&ASmartsheet | Rating: 48 | 2024-09-24 01:20:39 PM |