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Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
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One of Suno’s biggest investors just led a $700M round in Daniel Ek’s health startup
Lightspeed was the lead investor in AI music generator Suno’s $125 million Series B round in 2024. Source
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Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft’s monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company’s product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
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Steam study of over 53,000 games finds “60 – 90% of the growth” in monthly releases on Valve’s store is from games using AI and “almost none of them make money”
But then, hardly any non-AI Steam games make money, either
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OpenAI’s first branded hardware is… a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
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OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex
OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn’t the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit. Instead, it’s a product designed to be used with its coding platform, Codex. The device, a square-shaped block of buttons called Codex Micro,…
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This Hallmark PlayStation ornament uses the power-up sound, and it’ll tip ’90s kids into nostalgia overload
A wealth of new Hallmark gaming ornaments have been revealed, from a PlayStation console that blares the start-up sound to a Tears of the Kingdom Link that blasts heroic music at you
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Logic1000 Announces New Album Confirmation! Feat. Christine And The Queens, Jam City, yunè pinku, Kučka, & More
The Australian-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Samantha Poulter has been making music under the name Logic1000 for years. She has remixed people like Dua Lipa and Caribou, and she released her debut album Mother in 2024 and a celebrated installment in the DJ-Kicks mix series last year. Today, Logic1000 announces a new album called Confirmation!,…
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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.
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Death Threats, Doxxing and AI: How Animator Jorge Gutiérrez Killed His Own Show in 36 Hours (EXCLUSIVE)
Jorge Gutiérrez thought he was being noble. The director of “The Book of Life” had watched generative AI quietly move into every animation studio in town, and he had a bad feeling about it. “There aren’t enough artists overseeing this stuff,” he thought. So when Amazon MGM Studios offered Gutiérrez the lead on “Punky Duck,” one of three series under its…