Shutdown of Meta’s East African Content Moderation Hub
Meta’s east Africa content moderation hub is shutting down, according to a report by Financial Times. The social media’s third-party Sama, that was contracted by owner of Facebook in 2017 to label data and train its artificial intelligence is now laying off around 200 out of their 1,500 employee base.
Read morePhotoshop’s new generative AI feature lets you ‘uncrop’ images
Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that “expands images beyond their original bounds,” as the company describes it. Aptly called Generative Expand, the capability, available in the beta version of Photoshop, lets users expand and resize images by clicking and
Read morea16z-backed Eco unveils Beam, a P2P crypto transfer service aiming to be a ‘global Venmo’
The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences. Eco Inc, an a16z-backed payments startup that’s raised $95 million in funding to date, just unveiled a decentralized payments project called Beam. In an interview with
Read moreFlipturn hauls in $4.5M seed funding to help trucking fleets electrify for less
Charging an electric vehicle on a road trip these days can be challenging, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what fleet managers have to deal with. Imagine dozens of trucks arriving back at the yard at the end of the day, all needing to be recharged by the next
Read moreUS government contractor says MOVEit hackers accessed health data of ‘at least’ 8 million individuals
U.S. government services contracting giant Maximus has confirmed that hackers exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer accessed the protected health information of as many as 11 million individuals. Virginia-based Maximus contracts with federal, state, and local governments to manage and administer government-sponsored programs, such as Medicaid, Medicare, healthcare reform, and
Read moreGlossGenius raises $28M to expand its bookings and payments platform for beauty businesses
GlossGenius, a platform designed to handle bookings and payments for salons and spas, today announced that it raised $28 million in a Series C funding round led by L Catterton with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Imaginary Ventures. The round values GlossGenius at $510 million — the startup’s second
Read moreAnnouncing OverflowAI
Today marks the beginning of a new and exciting era for Stack Overflow. We are announcing our roadmap for the integration of generative AI into our public platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, and brand new product areas, like an IDE integration that brings the vast knowledge of 58 million questions
Read moreMeet Gitgrab: A Rust-based CLI Tool for Parallel Git Repository Updates
Gitgrab is an Open Source CLI tool that can display all necessary information available on GitHub on the terminal. It started as a copy of Neofetch for Github, but as the project grew bigger and more people used it, it evolved into a helpful tool for users.Gitgrab is written purely in
Read more5 Online Courses to Master AI Prompts
Artificial Intelligence is quickly being integrated into every part of the way we work and live. There is much fear and concern circulating about how AI will infiltrate every part of our existence and in some cases replace humans. This mindset needs to be adjusted. AI has improved, enhanced and
Read moreUpgrade acquires travel-focused BNPL startup Uplift for a song
Upgrade, a provider of personal credit lines and other consumer financial products, today announced that it’s agreed to acquire Uplift, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) vendor, for $100 million in cash and stock. It’s likely not the exit Uplift was hoping for — and a sign of serious consolidation
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