Chris Welch / The Verge: Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default feed, another improvement seemingly sparked by Bluesky competition — Threads will now let users decide what feed they want as their default when opening the app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
Published: 2024-11-25 18:50:16
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources — Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. — Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short …
Published: 2024-11-25 18:20:16
Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M — - Texas-based security unicorn is backed by Bain, Evolution — Halcyon is raising $100 million in funding from investors
Published: 2024-11-25 18:15:00
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram adds the ability for users to share their locations with friends via DMs for up to one hour, in select countries — Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Monday.
Published: 2024-11-25 17:15:00
The Information: Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales — Apple's desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can't overcome a design hurdle …
Published: 2024-11-25 16:55:00
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB — The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.
Published: 2024-11-25 16:00:45
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps game developers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation — As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic …
Published: 2024-11-25 15:20:01
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it — Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …
Published: 2024-11-25 15:10:01
Financial Times: The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky” — Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers
Published: 2024-11-25 14:50:01
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears — - Buy now, pay later firm's revenue up 23% in nine-month period — Klarna has filed for an initial public offering in the US
Published: 2024-11-25 14:05:01
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures — Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.
Published: 2024-11-25 13:50:01
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video management and monetization platform Brightcove private in a deal valued at $233M — Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology company Bending Spoons …
Published: 2024-11-25 13:40:03
James Hunt / The Block: MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin — - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.
Published: 2024-11-25 13:35:03
Peter Chapman / Bloomberg: The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses — - EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted
Published: 2024-11-25 12:50:15
Carolyn Cohn / Reuters: Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have lost UK businesses ~£44B in revenue in the past five years and 52% of companies have reported at least one attack — Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years …
Published: 2024-11-25 11:45:02