Journals

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Axiom, a protocol that lets smart contract developers access historical data from Ethereum and then perform computations off-chain, raised a $20M Series A  —  The funding will go towards further developing the protocol and adding new… Read More »Axiom, a protocol that lets smart contract developers access historical data from Ethereum and then perform computations off-chain, raised a $20M Series A (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: X is flooded with AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift; one post, live for 17 hours, had 45M+ views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and 24K reposts  —  Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift… Read More »X is flooded with AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift; one post, live for 17 hours, had 45M+ views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and 24K reposts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News: Fubo TV launches Instant Headlines Beta, which uses AI to generate headlines from live news programs on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and other networks  —  You may be familiar with AI-powered highlights of sporting… Read More »Fubo TV launches Instant Headlines Beta, which uses AI to generate headlines from live news programs on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and other networks (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Anomalo, which uses AI to solve data-quality problems in large datasets, raised a $33M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total funding to $72M  —  When Anomalo’s co-founders left Instacart in 2018, they thought they… Read More »Anomalo, which uses AI to solve data-quality problems in large datasets, raised a $33M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total funding to $72M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Bloomberg: Sources: despite a US-Netherlands deal to limit ASML’s China exports, the Dutch let ASML export to China after lobbying, to make up for weak demand elsewhere  —  – US was seeking to limit shipments of ASML gear to China … Read More »Sources: despite a US-Netherlands deal to limit ASML’s China exports, the Dutch let ASML export to China after lobbying, to make up for weak demand elsewhere (Bloomberg)

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Industrial tech company Roper plans to buy Procare Solutions, which makes cloud tools for childcare centers, for $1.75B from Warburg Pincus and TA Associates  —  Roper Technologies (ROP.O) said it will buy software firm Procare Solutions… Read More »Industrial tech company Roper plans to buy Procare Solutions, which makes cloud tools for childcare centers, for $1.75B from Warburg Pincus and TA Associates (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google partners with Hugging Face to host the startup’s open-source AI models on Google Cloud, letting Hugging Face developers access Google’s computing power  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google forged a deal to host AI software from startup… Read More »Google partners with Hugging Face to host the startup’s open-source AI models on Google Cloud, letting Hugging Face developers access Google’s computing power (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Google Research details Lumiere, an AI video tool that uses unique architecture to create videos in one process, instead of by stitching together smaller parts  —  Lumiere generates five-second videos that “portray realistic, diverse and… Read More »Google Research details Lumiere, an AI video tool that uses unique architecture to create videos in one process, instead of by stitching together smaller parts (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Microsoft plans to lay off ~1,900 staff at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, or ~8% of its Microsoft Gaming workforce, this week  —  Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and… Read More »Internal memo: Microsoft plans to lay off ~1,900 staff at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, or ~8% of its Microsoft Gaming workforce, this week (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: Google announces a new mint color for the Pixel 8 series, plans to bring Circle to Search to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, improves the built-in thermometer, and more  —  A “fresh” new color for… Read More »Google announces a new mint color for the Pixel 8 series, plans to bring Circle to Search to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, improves the built-in thermometer, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)