YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of short videos on TV every month
Short-form video is a format built for mobile. These vertical videos are designed to fit the shape of your smartphone. But according to YouTube, this type of content has become extremely popular on the big screen. Although it seems counterintuitive, it’s hard to argue with this data. YouTube viewers watch more than 2 billion hours […]
Khosla Ventures bets $10 million on Ian Crosby, whose first startup Bench went bankrupt
Ian Crosbie’s previous startup, Bench Accounting, which famously closed in 2024 before being acquired for scrap, is taking on a new challenge: building a business by automating the arduous task of bookkeeping. His new startup, Synthetic, aims to build a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper that can generate accrual-based financials without direct human involvement. Although the […]
How to turn off Instagram’s new Instant feature and undo photos you accidentally shared
Yesterday, Instagram globally released a new feature called “Instant” designed to share authentic, disappearing photos. The Meta-owned social network is touting Instant as a new format for sharing real-life moments, but many users, especially those who accidentally sent images to others without fully understanding how the feature works, are looking for ways to turn off […]
Spyware Investigator Reveals Russian Government Hackers Trying to Take Over Signal Accounts
Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher investigating spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. Only once did he become the target of a hacker. The message I received on my Signal account said, “Dear User, this is the Signal Security Support Chatbot. We have detected suspicious activity on your device that […]
Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs as it expands investment in AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
Technology giant Cisco is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected profits and sales in its fiscal third quarter. The network equipment maker said it was cutting headcount in order to change its “cost structure” and invest in AI and cybersecurity. Cisco’s decision follows a recent trend in which […]
Who decides what AI communicates? Campbell Brown, former head of news at Meta, thinks:
Campbell Brown has spent his career pursuing accurate information, first as a renowned television journalist and then as Facebook’s first and only full-time news chief. Today, we see the threat of history repeating itself as we watch AI change the way people consume information. This time, she’s not waiting for someone else to fix it. […]
Anthropic raises funding while Clio hits $500 million milestone
AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, but no use case is yet as popular or profitable as writing code. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, believes legal tech is poised to be the next big winner of the LLM era. It’s […]
Notion turns your workspace into a hub for AI agents
Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agent era. In a livestreamed product announcement Wednesday, the company best known for its collaborative note-taking app expanded the capabilities of its custom AI agents, connected them with external agents, and introduced a new developer platform that lets teams build automated, multi-step workflows that can ingest data […]
Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that in the future, AI will predict your needs before you know them.
Anthropic is having a very good year as the tech industry focuses specifically on AI models. The company aims to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would value it at about $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854 billion in a March round), and enterprise customers are increasingly preferring Claude […]
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy gains 33% in IPO debut, driven by demand for AI data centers
Fervo Energy, a geothermal energy startup, achieved a market valuation of over $10 billion in its public market debut, driven by demand for AI data centers and the energy that can power them. Furbo raised $1.89 billion in an enhanced initial public offering Wednesday, which originally valued the company at about $7.6 billion. Demand for […]