Tag: #InnovaciónEmpresarial

Wikipedia says AI search summaries and social videos are causing traffic decline

Wikipedia is often touted as the last good website on an internet increasingly populated by toxic social media and AI slop. But online encyclopedias aren’t completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews down 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Wikimedia Foundation’s Marshall Miller. The foundation works to differentiate between traffic from […]

This top VC bets nearly 20% of its money on teenagers – here’s why

Kevin Hurts tends to be the first through the door. In 2001, he co-founded Xoom. Those were the days when you had to wait in line at Western Union to send money across the border. The company went public in 2013, and PayPal paid $1.1 billion for it in 2015. Four years after launching Xoom, […]

YouTubers are no longer dependent on ad revenue — how some YouTubers are diversifying

YouTube has become the largest platform and offers creators many opportunities to make a living. In June, the company reported that the creative ecosystem has increased U.S. GDP by more than $55 billion and created more than 490,000 full-time jobs. However, many YouTubers are reducing their reliance on ad revenue and brand deals. There are […]

Too burnt out to travel? This new app will fake your summer vacation photos

At a time when startup hustle culture is back and “locked-in” tech founders are even embracing the “996” working style (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week), there’s something dystopian about using an AI app to generate a fake vacation photo of yourself. Still, here we are. Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined […]

WhatsApp changes terms to ban generic chatbots from platform

Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policies this week, banning generic chatbots from its platform. The move is likely to impact WhatsApp-based assistants from companies such as OpenAI, Perplexity, Khosla Ventures-backed Luzia, and General Catalyst-backed Poke. Focusing on general-purpose chatbots, the company has added a new section to its business API terminology that […]

Silicon Valley surprises AI safety advocates

Silicon Valley leaders, including White House AI and cryptocurrency czar David Sachs and OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon, sparked controversy online this week with comments about groups promoting AI safety. In other cases, he argued that some AI safety advocates are not as noble as they appear, acting in their own interests or the […]

Senate Republicans deepfaked Chuck Schumer, but X isn’t taking it down

Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that makes it appear as though Democrats are celebrating the 16-day government shutdown. The deepfake shows an AI-generated Schumer repeating the phrase “Every day gets better for us,” which are actual words taken out of context from a Punchbowl News article. In the […]

AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed land in Texas

The AI ​​era is giving fracking a second act, a surprising development for an industry that even during the boom years of the early 2010s was criticized by climate change advocates for polluted water tables, man-made earthquakes, and the persistence of fossil fuels. AI companies are building large data centers near major gas production areas, […]