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Paul Graham / Y Combinator: Reflecting on Reddit’s history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched  —  I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator.  In fact they were one of the reasons we started it. Source link

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Monday kicked off his company’s annual developer conference with a slew of announcements designed to keep the chip maker in a dominant position in the artificial-intelligence industry. On a hockey arena stage in the heart of Silicon Valley, Huang introduced Nvidia’s latest chip, which is 30 times speedier at

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple’s and Google’s DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta’s subscriptions could also face scrutiny  —  – Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU’s Big Tech clampdown  — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines Source link

Nvidia on Monday announced a hardware and software platform for building human-like robots that includes generative artificial intelligence features. The new platform will consist of a computer system that will power the robot and AI, plus a package of software including genAI and other tools in order to build robots that are human-like, the company

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Sources: the BBC plans to build its own AI models, and is holding talks with tech companies, including Amazon, about selling its content for AI training  —  UK broadcaster seeks to build artificial intelligence models and negotiates with companies on content deal Source link

Stability AI released a new 3D video rendering model dubbed Stable Video 3D (SV3D) on Monday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model generates videos, but unlike popular video generators such as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway AI, and Pika 1.0, it does not take text inputs. The main focus of SV3D is to take the image input and

Jena McGregor / Forbes: Borderless AI, whose AI agent automates HR tasks like onboarding and payments, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Susquehanna and Aglaé Ventures  —  Few HR startups have grown faster or seen more venture capital funding in recent years than so-called “employers of record,” … Source link

WhatsApp is testing two new features that will make it easier to share longer videos as status updates and make faster peer-to-peer (P2P) payments via UPI. These new features were spotted by feature tracker WABetaInfo on recent beta versions of WhatsApp for Android. When these features roll out to all user on the table channel,

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Reddit, one of the last online places where real people gather to talk, is a content moderation success story, after evolving from a dark corner of the internet  —  The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping bad actors at bay.

Microsoft has appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a newly created consumer AI unit and hired several employees of his Inflection AI startup, seeking to defend its lead against rising competition from Google. Suleyman will be CEO of the unit, Microsoft AI, the company said on Tuesday, bringing under one roof its