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2024-07-29 11:55:31

ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-nazi-content-moderation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240729/p3#a240729p3

2024-05-16 18:30:56

TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/tiktok-upload-60-minute-videos/
http://www.techmeme.com/240516/p32#a240516p32

2024-05-09 21:20:40

ElevenLabs previews a music-generating AI model, showing samples of songs with lyrics generated from text prompts (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/elevenlabs-previews-music-generating-ai-model/
http://www.techmeme.com/240509/p31#a240509p31

2024-04-25 17:50:45

Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/threads-launches-a-mute-feature-for-words-teases-controls-for-quote-posts/
http://www.techmeme.com/240425/p23#a240425p23

2024-04-24 08:03:44

A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
http://www.techmeme.com/240424/p10#a240424p10

2024-04-19 19:16:46

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown
http://www.techmeme.com/240419/p10#a240419p10

2024-03-12 17:01:21

Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder-bumble.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240312/p23#a240312p23

2024-01-21 04:20:45

Nightshade, a free tool letting artists "poison" AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nightshade-the-free-tool-that-poisons-ai-models-is-now-available-for-artists-to-use/
http://www.techmeme.com/240120/p12#a240120p12

2024-01-12 21:16:03

An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH (benjojo blog)
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
http://www.techmeme.com/240112/p17#a240112p17

2023-12-10 18:15:42

Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, with investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources: the deal values Mistral at about $2B (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/technology/mistral-ai-funding.html
http://www.techmeme.com/231210/p6#a231210p6

2023-12-05 21:30:45

Elon Musk's xAI has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying it has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29 (Hayden Field/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/elon-musks-ai-startup-xai-files-to-raise-1-billion-.html
http://www.techmeme.com/231205/p27#a231205p27

2023-10-03 22:50:50

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise at least $2B from Google and others, seeking a $20B-$30B valuation, and projects a revenue of $200M by the end of 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-rival-anthropic-in-talks-to-raise-2-billion-from-google-others-as-ai-arms-race-accelerates
http://www.techmeme.com/231003/p36#a231003p36

2023-09-10 19:50:46

Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/instacart-to-target-much-diminished-valuation-range-of-under-10-billion-in-ipo-45c22724?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/230910/p8#a230910p8