Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sensor Tower: Instagram’s total app downloads grew 20% YoY in 2023 to 768M, making it the most downloaded app worldwide; TikTok had 733M downloads, up 4% YoY  —  Meta-owned platform’s push into short-form video bears fruit while TikTok’s explosive growth begins to ease Source link

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off over the past year, with powerful AI chatbots, image and video generators and other AI tools flooding the market. The new technology has also posed new challenges related to responsible AI use, misinformation, impersonation, copyright infringement and more. Now, YouTube has announced new set of guidelines for AI-generated

Cassidy Ritter / Denver Business Journal: Denver-based Maybell Quantum, which is developing systems to make quantum tech more reliable, scalable, and accessible, raised a $25M Series A  —  The new 8,000-square-foot facility will allow the company to scale and offer more lab space to other startups and researchers. Source link

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a duo of custom-designed computing chips, joining other big tech firms that – faced with the high cost of delivering artificial intelligence services – are bringing key technologies in-house. Microsoft said it does not plan to sell the chips but instead will use them to power its own subscription software offerings

The Economic Times: India approves a ~$1.25B investment in AI projects over five years, including for optimizing compute infrastructure, LLM development, and education in AI  —  The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 10,371.92 crore ‘India AI mission’ for five years to promote Artificial Intelligence in India. Source link

Apple introduced the Emergency SOS via satellite for all iPhone 14 users in November 2022. When there are no other options for contacting emergency services, emergency SOS via satellite feature can help users get in touch with them. Compatible iPhone models make an effort to link customers to necessary assistance via satellite-based communication in the

Karissa Bell / Engadget: X announces Articles, a feature to write and share long-form content with a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers  —  Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.  —  Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to

Threads — the text-based microblogging platform that competes with X (formerly Twitter) — is testing support for tags, a popular feature on the rival messaging service. Tags function in a similar manner as hashtags on X, but do not include the hash symbol. Meta has also put some limitations on the use of tags on

John Tozzi / Bloomberg: UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack prompted disruptions two weeks ago  —  Electronic prescribing is now restored.  The company’s payments platform will be back online March 15, and testing … Source link

Google Photos is getting new AI-based features for organising and categorising photos for users. The search giant has added a new Photo Stack feature for Google Photos that lets users group similar shots together to keep their library free of clutter. Another AI-powered feature will identify and automatically categorise screenshots and documents in the gallery into