YouTube takes on TikTok with longer Shorts, templates, trends, and more
YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts. These include the ability for creators to upload videos up to three minutes in length. The company says it’s also updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and adding a new Shorts trends page on mobile
Read moreInside Elon Musk’s AI party in OpenAI’s old headquarters
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images It had all the makings of a typical recruiting event for a tech startup in San Francisco. There was free food, drinks, and live music generated via code being written in real time. But there were also mandatory metal detector screenings,
Read moreFPV Ventures, Mill, and Bullish rise above the hype at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
In a world where tech trends often create a frenzy of investments, the temptation to follow the crowd can be overwhelming. But the business of trends is a dangerous game. When everyone is diving headfirst into the latest “next big thing,” the risk of falling off a cliff without genuine
Read moreWiz CEO Assaf Rappaport is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
The tech world took a major double take this year when a security startup called Wiz founded out of Israel just four years earlier became the subject of a record-breaking, $23 billion acquisition attempt by Google — an offer the startup boldly proceeded … to refuse. Really? Yes, really. We will
Read moreCommunity Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
Read moreUber taps Yandex spinout Avride for autonomous delivery and ride-hail partnership
Uber is not done snatching up autonomous vehicle partnerships. The ride-hail and delivery giant on Thursday announced a multi-year deal with Yandex spinout Avride to bring the company’s sidewalk delivery robots and autonomous vehicles to both Uber Eats and Uber. It’s the latest in a series of deals from Uber
Read moreVoyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
AI tends to make things up. That’s unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses, for which fallacious results could hurt the bottom line. Half of workers responding to a recent survey from Salesforce say they worry answers from their company’s generative
Read moreHey, UK! Here’s how to ‘opt out’ of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram data to train its AI
After Meta recently reignited controversial plans to use the public posts of U.K. Facebook and Instagram users’ as AI training fodder, the social networking giant has taken the next step and begun to notify local users it will soon start helping itself to their information again. The bad news is
Read moreSpotify adds a new, automatically updating playlist for offline listening
Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs you recently listened to and that you can consume offline. It updates automatically based on your listening history. Paid users can already download songs for offline consumption. But Spotify wants
Read moreETH Zurich spinoff Voliro’s flying robots save lives, but don’t tell its CEO
We have only touched the surface of what drones can do and how ubiquitous they will become. This is also true in industry, where they have the potential to replace human labor in risky activities such as inspection at height. Swiss startup Voliro operates in this space, with flying robots
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