Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. The hiring of
Read moreDiscussions now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow
Expanding the experiment to create the space for developers to have meaningful conversations about their favorite technologies
Read moreAR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. Today, Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced its new product, Frame, a
Read moreCrux is building GenAI-powered business intelligence tools
GenAI might be one of the most exciting technologies today. But it’s also one of the fastest-moving — posing a challenge for enterprises keen to deploy it. With each new GenAI innovation, companies have to worry not only about staying on top of trends but validating what’s working, all while
Read moreIntroducing Gemini
Recent data has revealed a significant surge in Google searches related to AI in South Africa, with a 370% increase over the last year and a remarkable 650% increase over the past five years. In a new global survey conducted by Google, South African respondents reported that they are already
Read moreClosinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent the 1 in 10 real estate transactions targeted for fraud
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Read moreCIO Association of Canada turns 20: Hashtag Trending for Thursday, Feb 8, 2024
Tesla’s stock is the biggest loser on the S&P 500. YouTube is hailed as one of the most engaging social media sites, LinkedIn introduces AI tools to save time managing your network, Vision Pro headsets may be a hazard and the CIO Association of Canada turns 20. All this and
Read moreIf you save a file as PDF twice, you get two different files
If you save a file as a PDF twice, you won’t get exactly the same file both times. To illustrate this, I created an LibreOffice document containing “Hello world.” and saved it twice, first as humpty.pdf then as dumpty.pdf. Then I compared the two files. % diff humpty.pdf dumpty.pdf Binary
Read moreGoogle goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly, though, it is also now launching Gemini Ultra, its most
Read moreGoogle Assistant is now powered by Gemini — sort of
Google Assistant as we knew it is on the way out. Well, at least its guts. Late last year, Google added AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in emails, documents and more. Now, the
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