Category: business

This startup wants to be the iTunes of AI content licensing

TollBit The 28-year-old founders of TollBit, a New York-based startup that is all of six months old, think we’re living in the “Napster days” of AI. Just like people of a certain generation downloaded digital music, companies are ripping off vast swaths of the internet without paying the rights holders.…

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The Morning After: Instagram endorses the photo dump

Just in time for summer vacation jealousy baiting, Instagram has doubled the number of photos and videos users can share in a carousel post, from 10 to 20. In a way, this harkens back to the late 2000s era of photo dumps on Facebook, probably involving an SD card from…

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The Morning After: Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects

According to Bloomberg and The New York Times, Meta is in talks with the likes of Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina and Dame Judi Dench, among others, for its AI projects. The company apparently intends to incorporate their voices into a conversational generative AI-slash-digital assistant called MetaAI, which is rumored to be…

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The Morning After: What we’re expecting at Google’s 2024 Pixel event

Thanks to a string of leaks and Google’s own teases — usually following said leaks — we know we’ll get the official reveal of the Pixel 9 lineup.  The Pixel 9 and 9 Pro will be straight-up successors to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro but rumors suggest Google will…

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Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

The carmaker says that China tariffs will impact its core product, the Polestar 2, amid growing financial pressure. Source

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Welcome to WIRED Travel

Don’t pack your bags without taking us along for the ride. Source

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