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H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications

H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed round of $220 million before releasing a single product. Three months later, still without a product, that splash started to look like a catastrophic flood when three of the company’s five co-founders left over “operational and business disagreements.”

Ingrid Lunden

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:14 p.m.

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This Week in AI: Congressional commission warns of Chinese AGI

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Kyle Wiggers

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:14 p.m.

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DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming the search giant is in breach of several areas where the bloc has yet to formally probe the company’s compliance.

Natasha Lomas

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:14 p.m.

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Messenger gets HD video calls, AI backgrounds, and more

Meta is introducing new features for Messenger, its messaging app, including AI-powered noise suppression.

Kyle Wiggers

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:14 p.m.

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As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally

As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta’s own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling out a new feature called custom feeds, to its global audience. Hoping to capitalize on user demand for more personalization, custom feeds are meant to allow Threads users to easily build feeds around specific topics or those including certain user profiles.

Sarah Perez

Nov. 20, 2024, 5:44 p.m.

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TV Time points to Apple’s ‘significant power’ over developers after being removed from App Store

TV Time, a popular TV and movie tracking and recommendations app with more than 30 million registered users, disappeared from Apple’s App Store for several weeks, leading to questions about its future from the app’s avid fan base. Considering that 2.5 million users use the app every month to track what they’re watching and to engage in a social network where they can comment on individual episodes, vote for favorite characters, post images and GIFs, and connect with other users, its disappearance didn’t go unnoticed.

Sarah Perez

Nov. 20, 2024, 5:14 p.m.

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A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1

A Chinese lab has unveiled what appears to be one of the first “reasoning” AI models to rival OpenAI’s o1.

Kyle Wiggers

Nov. 20, 2024, 5:14 p.m.

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Comcast spins off its cable channels into separate company as it looks for growth

Cable television has long been viewed as a stagnant business, showing little promise for growth over the years. However, Comcast believes it has found a new growth opportunity.

Lauren Forristal

Nov. 20, 2024, 4:44 p.m.

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TV Time points to Apple’s ‘significant power’ over devolpers after being removed from App Store

TV Time, a popular TV and movie tracking and recommendations app with more than 30 million registered users, disappeared from Apple’s App Store for several weeks, leading to questions about its future from the app’s avid fan base. Considering that 2.5 million users use the app every month to track what they’re watching and to engage in a social network where they can comment on individual episodes, vote for favorite characters, post images and GIFs, and connect with other users, its disappearance didn’t go unnoticed.

Sarah Perez

Nov. 20, 2024, 4:44 p.m.

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A Chinese lab has released a model to rival OpenAI’s o1

A Chinese lab has unveiled what appears to be one of the first “reasoning” AI models to rival OpenAI’s o1.

Kyle Wiggers

Nov. 20, 2024, 4:44 p.m.

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