Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a "text-like" format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M seed led by Felicis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a “text-like” format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M
Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell to oversee Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro
AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI
Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered
Sources: VCs with "locked" tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Sources: VCs with “locked” tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024’s largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into
A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety: A look at YouTube’s origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who
Nintendo wins a final victory over French file sharing company Dstorage, which means European file sharing services must now remove illegal copies of its games (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net)
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Nintendo wins a final victory over French file sharing company Dstorage, which means European file sharing services must now remove illegal
An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at Apple’s AI crisis, as some in Apple’s AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won’t
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an "error" that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
Dylan Butts / CNBC: Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in
Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds
