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For a brief moment, we looked for love in a hopeless place: TikTok.TikTok tested a new dating feature over the past week that thrust users into live group chats with other singles.The tool lived in a section of the app called “hangout” that’s tailored toward multi-guest experiences. It invited users who wanted to flirt to join chat rooms with “great people” or “awesome people to meet,” according to different versions of the feature viewed by Business Insider.TikTok’s live dating option, which was made available to a subset of users in the US and a few other markets, is now being…
SpaceX’s first earnings report since its historic IPO is about to drop, and it comes at a sensitive time for the stock, which has tumbled 15% from the $135 offering price.Wall Street isn’t expecting the company to report a surprise profit. Starlink, its satellite internet business, is where investors will want to see growth in order to keep the money coming in while other projects pan out. The report comes two days before a lockup expiration is set to significantly increase the public float, or the amount of stock available to trade. On August 6, insiders and early investors will…
During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent. The company also announced that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has now joined Universal Music Group (UMG) on the new AI music effort. The deal brings more than 30,000 labels from Merlin’s network to the product, which will allow fan-made covers and remixes by artists who agree to participate. Spotify has positioned its AI music product as being significantly…
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. Only Virginia hosts more data centers than Texas. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink. Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday that all new data center projects will need to be audited by both the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The size of ERCOT’s interconnection queue has grown dramatically this year. In January, ERCOT had 233 gigawatts of…
Elon Musk wants you to believe Tesla is no longer a car company, even if it’s still shaped like one. The company shipped nearly half a million cars last quarter and made 70% of its money from car sales. Still, Musk has spent the last few years making the case that Tesla is really an AI and robotics company, even if some of the AI happens to live in cars. And whatever the company financials suggest, Musk’s attention has been moving decisively to the AI parts of the company — projects like the Optimus robot and fully autonomous robotaxis —…
Apple is now seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, which aims to stop the AI model maker from moving forward with developing an AI device or other products based on Apple’s technology. The iPhone maker also claims that more of its former employees may be involved with the trade secrets theft. In a new filing, Apple is requesting expedited discovery from the accused OpenAI employees, senior systems engineer Chang Liu and Chief Hardware Officer Tang Yew Tan; OpenAI, and its foundation; and io, the device startup co-founded by Apple’s former lead designer Jony Ive. Apple…
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod. Designed as a single transportable unit, the Pod represents a more flexible kind of compute that can sit alongside hyperscalers’ massive data center projects. Runware says the Pod can offer inference at a higher quality but lower cost than other serverless inference platforms and GPU clouds. The modular design means it’s easy to add capacity quickly by creating new pods rather than having to expand a fixed data center. In some ways, this is the future, Flaviu Radulescu, co-founder and CEO…
As hyperscalers build out data centers around the world, they need to move the bits back and forth, and that often relies on a somewhat brittle network of undersea fiberoptic cables crisscrossing the oceans. Those cables are tricky to access and repair, much less install. But alternatives aren’t easy to find: Radio transmissions don’t have the bandwidth, which rules out most wireless approaches on the ground or in orbit. But now, maybe lasers could do the job. Endeavor Optical Networks, a start-up founded in May and emerging from stealth today with $10.75 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp took a victory lap over the company’s explosive growth, saying it managed to boost its commercial business using a “miniscule and shrinking” sales team.In the shareholder letter accompanying Monday’s second-quarter results, Karp said it was another case of Palantir ignoring the norms of growing a business.”On a quarter-by-quarter basis, our US commercial business grew 28%. Such growth — indeed, such acceleration — gives the impression that what others might require a year or even longer to achieve, we can do in 90 days,” Karp wrote.”It must be noted that we have achieved these results with a…
There are a lot of things about parenting that are unpleasant drudgery. There’s the obvious ones: diapers, cleaning bottle parts, picking up Legos, listening to “Wheels on the Bus” over and over.As kids get older, you’ll also discover so many more annoying things: The constant sorting of too-small clothes, dividing between storage, donation, and hand-me-downs. All the separate apps for messaging used by schools, bus companies, daycares, and sports leagues seem to have UI designed by Satan himself. The fact that there will be at least one early release or day off from school on a random non-holiday day you…