Chris Welch / The Verge:
Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC — Beats just announced its new Solo 4, its latest in a long line of on-ear wireless headphones. The latest model, priced at $199.99, offers battery life of up to 50 hours.
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products — The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data — Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q …
Source: Apple is testing new Safari features including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut in 2024 (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider)
Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider:
Source: Apple is testing new Safari features including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut in 2024 — Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features …
Network security startup Corelight raised a $150M Series E led by Accel, in a deal valuing it at $900M, says it is on track to hit $100M in ARR within months (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Network security startup Corelight raised a $150M Series E led by Accel, in a deal valuing it at $900M, says it is on track to hit $100M in ARR within months — – Security startup is valued at $900 million in Accel-led round — Corelight combines cloud security and artificial intelligence
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative (Sahil Patel/The Information)
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative — Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to develop new artificial intelligence …
Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to promote original content, impacting aggregator accounts, and increase distribution for smaller accounts (Mia Sato/The Verge)
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to promote original content, impacting aggregator accounts, and increase distribution for smaller accounts — Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts.
In its first TikTok Shop Safety Report, TikTok reports 500K+ sellers in the US and 15M+ sellers worldwide in December 2023, adding 6M+ in H2 2023 (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
In its first TikTok Shop Safety Report, TikTok reports 500K+ sellers in the US and 15M+ sellers worldwide in December 2023, adding 6M+ in H2 2023 — – Company releases first safety report on its shopping platform — Merchants and approved users can link products for sale
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters — With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people’s inboxes continue …
Bumble redesigns its app and adds Opening Moves, to let women ask a question men can answer, a major shift that ends the requirement that women message first (Valeriya Safronova/New York Times)
Valeriya Safronova / New York Times:
Bumble redesigns its app and adds Opening Moves, to let women ask a question men can answer, a major shift that ends the requirement that women message first — As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course.
