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  • UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’

    A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly’s policies are “holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growth. “Mobile browsers are apps which provide the primary gateway for consumers to access the web on their mobile devices, and hence for businesses to reach them…

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  • Donald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups

    Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he’s been busy monetizing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ecosystem. He’s been making bets in media, pharmaceutical, guns, and crypto while pushing against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the Financial Times reported. The…

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  • OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation

    Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which has steadfastly shepherded the project through its many ups and downs. Right now, with the…

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  • Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents

    Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks for supporting AI agents built-in from the outset. That’s because one of Dapr’s core features is…

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  • Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that

    Japanese startup Sakana said that its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn’t untrue, there are significant caveats to note. The debate swirling around AI and its role in the scientific process grows fiercer by the day. Many researchers don’t believe AI is quite ready to serve as a “co-scientist,”…

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  • Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model

    Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an…

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  • Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content

    Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, the model was built in collaboration with Asteria, a newer AI animation studio. Marey was trained on “owned or fully licensed” source…

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  • Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law

    Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India’s Kerala on Tuesday under the country’s extradition law. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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  • Why Onyx thinks its open source solution will win enterprise search

    Enterprises have troves of internal data and information that employees need to complete their tasks or answer questions for potential customers. But that doesn’t mean the right information is easy to find. Onyx wants to solve that problem through its internal enterprise search tool. There are other big names in the category, like Glean —…

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  • Lithium-ion batteries are remaking Google’s data centers

    Google is replacing lead-acid battery backup units with lithium-ion cells, freeing up space for more servers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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