Journals

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shutdown date  —  Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news… Read More »Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shutdown date (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: An interview with Adobe executives about training Firefly on content licensed specifically for AI training, the decision not to scrape the internet, and more  —  Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, there… Read More »An interview with Adobe executives about training Firefly on content licensed specifically for AI training, the decision not to scrape the internet, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Adobe adds a “structure reference” feature to Firefly AI, letting users upload an image to guide the model about the “arrangement” of the image  —  Adobe was one of the largest and first companies to jump… Read More »Adobe adds a “structure reference” feature to Firefly AI, letting users upload an image to guide the model about the “arrangement” of the image (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety  —  Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they… Read More »Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version  —  Google is releasing an optimized version of… Read More »Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version (Jon Porter/The Verge)

CoinDesk: The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with US government, and more  —  The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act.  —  U.S. federal prosecutors… Read More »The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with US government, and more (CoinDesk)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024  —  Dell had 120,000 employees globally as of Feb. 2,… Read More »Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: Filings detail Meta’s Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019  —  Unsealed court filings reveal Meta’s secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to… Read More »Filings detail Meta’s Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco’s $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019  —  – Early Google investor barred from executive, board roles  — Bechtolsheim… Read More »Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco’s $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019 (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

David Pierce / The Verge: AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries  —  The AI search tools are getting better — but they don’t… Read More »AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries (David Pierce/The Verge)