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The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to regain the old web spirit when AI-generated content overwhelms traditional social media platforms and threatens to drown out the voices of real people. This provides the opportunity to build social sites in the age of AI. This believes that people who create content and manage online communities will be given a big stake in the success of the platform, the founder of Digg believes. Digg, a news aggregator in the Web 2.0 era, was once valued at $175 million at its height in 2008 and is living a new life under…
Charature.AI, a platform for AI-generated characters and chat and role-playing, announced in a blog post Monday that it is rolling out a multimedia feature slate. These features include video generation models from Avatarfx, Character.ai, as well as scenes and streams. This allows users to create videos featuring characters and share them in their new social feeds. “character.ai started out as a 1:1 text chat, but today it has evolved to do more, inspired by what users said. [us] They want to see it on the platform,” the company wrote in a blog post. Character.ai began rolling out Avatarfx to subscribers…
Updated 1:13pm Pacific: A Salesforce spokesperson told TechCrunch that MoonHub has not actually been obtained (by the company’s definition of terms). Rather, MoonHub is shutting down and as MoonHub suggests in its post about the news, only a portion of the company’s team will join Salesforce, not the entire team. The original story continues. Salesforce quietly snapped MoonHub, a startup AI for reviewing and hiring talent. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. In a post on the MoonHub website on Monday, the company said the entire team based in Menlo Park, California, will join Salesforce, an early…
Fisent Technologies, a high-tech startup Genai tool that builds Genai tools to remove Grunt Work from Enterprise Operations, has added more fuel to the seed round. The company’s total funding is currently at $2 million and receives new support from Luxembourg-based Cloudberry Pioneer Investments. They join early investors such as Pega, Sanddollar Capital and several notable entrepreneurs already on board. Fresh Capital helps to expand the team and develop its core product, Bizai. This is a platform built to automate repetitive tasks that are usually handled by humans. Pitch: Reduce manual dragging operations teams by allowing Genai to handle data-heavy…
Cary, North Carolina, June 2, 2025, Cybernake Wire New FBI data reveals that organizations need deeper technical expertise to detect, contain and correct advanced attacks INE Security, a global leader in cybersecurity training and certification, highlights the urgent need for technical cybersecurity professionals to neutralize threat detection, analysis and neutralization after bypassing initial defenses. The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report reveals harsh reality. Cybercriminals extracted a record of $16.6 billion from victims in 2024, representing a 33% increase from the previous year. These losses include victims, both individuals and organizations, but the corporate-centric attacks highlighted in…
Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into a “reckless” attack in the violent state of Zamfara.The military attacks in northwestern Nigeria have killed at least 20 people, according to military and local residents, prompting calls from human rights groups to investigate the attack. The strike took place over the weekend. In Zamfara, it is one of the areas affected by violence from armed groups commonly known as “bandits.” Nigerian Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodam said the strike followed the intelligence that “a considerable number of terrorists are gathering unsuspecting settlements and preparing to attack.” “More information confirmed that the bandits…
Russia and Ukraine agreed that new prisoners exchanges and thousands of wars had died during their in-person meetings in Istanbul, but there was little progress in ending the war. The delegation met on Monday at the Ottoman Silagang Palace in Turkey. Officials confirmed that both sides will exchange the bodies of 6,000 soldiers killed in the battle with prisoners of war. Negotiators on both sides confirmed that a contract has been reached to replace all seriously injured soldiers under the age of 25 with all captured fighters. “We agreed to trade inmates who were seriously injured, seriously injured, seriously injured.…
Tesla has filed a trademark application for the term “Tesla Robotaxi” after the company’s previous attempt to secure trademarks for planned autonomous vehicle services. The company originally applied for trademarks of the words “Robotaxi” and “Cybercab” in October 2024. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said last month that more detailed details were needed to be made to allow the “Robotaxi” trademark used by many other companies like Waymo, as TechCrunch first reported last month. The USPTO has suspended Tesla applications for “CyberCab” completely due to the number of other companies seeking to trademark various uses of the term…
Compliance company Vanta confirmed that the bug has made the personal data of some customers public to other Vanta customers. The company told TechCrunch that the data exposure was the result of a change in the product code and not a penetration. Vanta, which helps corporate customers automate the security and compliance process, identified the issue on May 26th and said the repairs will be completed on June 4th. The incident has resulted in “a subset of data from less than 20% of third-party integrations being exposed to other Vanta customers,” according to a statement arising from Vanta’s chief product…
Millions of people use ChatGpt as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to track. It’s not uncommon to hear people spill intimate details of their lives on AI chatbot prompt bars in 2025, but they also rely on the advice they give back. Humans are beginning to have relationships with AI chatbots because they don’t have a better term, and for the large tech companies it’s not competitive to attract users to chatbot platforms. As the “AI Engagement Race” gets heated, there is an increased incentive for businesses to coordinate chatbot responses and prevent users…