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A profile of Pavel Durov, a devout techno-optimist who trolled authorities online, started social network VKontakte in 2006, and left Russia in 2014 for Dubai — Pavel Durov's anti-establishment streak helped him create one of the world's biggest online platforms, which emphasizes free speech.
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Telegram is avidly used within political and media circles in France, including by President Emmanuel Macron, who has used the messaging app for nearly a decade — PARIS — Open the Telegram chat of anyone in the French political orbit and you'll notice lawmakers, cabinet members and presidential advisers online or recently connected.
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Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software — Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official.
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Source: OpenAI demoed a breakthrough called Strawberry to US natsec officials; one of its top uses is to make training data for a flagship LLM codenamed Orion — In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly …
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Cerebras launches the “world's fastest” AI inference service with “GPU-impossible performance”, costing 10+ cents per million tokens, to rival Nvidia — Ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup Cerebras Systems Inc. is raising the stakes in its battle against Nvidia Corp. … | Bloomberg: |
Former staff of video games payments company Xsolla say in lawsuits that CEO Aleksandr Agapitov leans heavily on company revenue for his new, flashier lifestyle — Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure his company's name - Xsolla … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-party AR tools and content platform that launched in 2017, effective January 14, 2025, angering some creators — Creators are unhappy with Meta's decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects.
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Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo — Instagram will now let you add text to your photos right from the post editor, meaning you won't need to edit your photos in a separate app just to add some text.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Snap rolls out a native Snapchat app for iPadOS, 13 years after launching on iOS; the app can only run in portrait mode — Snapchat was launched for iOS in 2011, but since then the app has only had iPhone support. iPad users, on the other hand, could only run the iPhone app …
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Sources: ex-Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan, an industry veteran, left over what he considered a bloated workforce, risk-averse culture, and lagging AI strategy — The sudden resignation of a high-profile Intel (INTC.O) board member came after differences with CEO Pat Gelsinger and other directors … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures — Supio, a Seattle startup founded in 2021 by longtime friends and former Microsoft engineers, raised a $25 million Series A investment to supercharge …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Klarna reports H1 2024 revenue up 27% YoY to ~$1.3B, a ~$66M adjusted profit, up from a ~$44M adjusted loss in H1 2023, and says AI does the work of 700 staff — Klarna Bank AB said revenue jumped 27% in the first half of this year, buoying adjusted profit as the fintech continues to prepare …
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