Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 — SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network is expected to hit a new customer milestone this week, company President Gwynne Shotwell told Texas legislators on Tuesday.
Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and games, to all developers, letting them distribute and monetize apps on Discord via its Embedded Apps SDK (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)
Rachel Kaser / VentureBeat:
Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and games, to all developers, letting them distribute and monetize apps on Discord via its Embedded Apps SDK — Discord announced today that it is opening development for Activities, its in-app ecosystem of apps and games, for all creators.
Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending commitments for its video-streaming offerings, including Thursday Night Football, in the coming year (The Information)
The Information:
Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending commitments for its video-streaming offerings, including Thursday Night Football, in the coming year — Amazon’s decision to introduce ads within its Prime Video streaming service is already paying off for the company.
Indian food delivery company Swiggy files for an IPO in India; source: Swiggy plans to raise $1.25B at a $15B valuation (Reuters)
Reuters:
Indian food delivery company Swiggy files for an IPO in India; source: Swiggy plans to raise $1.25B at a $15B valuation — SoftBank-backed Swiggy filed papers on Thursday for an initial public offering, which a source said would be worth $1.25 billion, as the food delivery firm looks to tap …
Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020 — Hugging Face cites community-driven customization as fuel for diverse AI model boom. — On Thursday, AI hosting platform Hugging Face …
X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked JD Vance dossier; X suspended the newsletter author Ken Klippenstein’s account (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked JD Vance dossier; X suspended the newsletter author Ken Klippenstein’s account — X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research …
LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large LCD display plant in China to TCL’s LCD unit CSOT for ~$1.54B; LG will now no longer make LCD panels in China (Reuters)
Reuters:
LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large LCD display plant in China to TCL’s LCD unit CSOT for ~$1.54B; LG will now no longer make LCD panels in China — South Korea’s LG Display (034220.KS) said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its stake in its large liquid crystal display (LCD) …
The US FCC levies a $6M fine on Steve Kramer, who used AI to mimic Biden’s voice and made thousands of robocalls to New Hampshire voters in early 2024 (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
The US FCC levies a $6M fine on Steve Kramer, who used AI to mimic Biden’s voice and made thousands of robocalls to New Hampshire voters in early 2024 — The US Federal Communications Commission levied a $6 million fine on Steve Kramer, the perpetrator behind thousands of robocalls that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice.
Sources: Robinhood and Revolut are exploring offering their own stablecoins; Tether’s USDT has grown to $120B, accounting for over two-thirds of market value (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Robinhood and Revolut are exploring offering their own stablecoins; Tether’s USDT has grown to $120B, accounting for over two-thirds of market value — – Tether’s USDT accounts for over two-thirds of market value — BitGo executive sees ‘hyper-fragmentation’ of stablecoins
Google updates its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM to let users get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and create sharable AI audio discussions (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google updates its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM to let users get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and create sharable AI audio discussions — Google on Thursday announced new updates to its AI note-taking and research assistant, NotebookLM, allowing users to get summaries …
