Sir Jack a Lot wants to help you avoid grifters: If you've ever hesitated to follow the seemingly mad investing advice that's thrown around on Reddit, you were right to. But a lot of people have fallen victim to pump-and-dump investing scams. Sir Jack a Lot, known for making millions off meme stocks and sharing investing advice, wants to change that, and he has launched a startup that aims to foster a community for retail traders that encourages accountability and trust. Read More
I swear, founders are getting younger by the day: What did you do after graduating high school? Whatever it was, you probably didn't raise half-a-mil for your AI startup. That's exactly what two recent high school grads, Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot, have done with their startup APIGen, which wants to build an AI that can churn out custom APIs just with natural language prompts. Read More
OmniAI transforms business data: The majority of business data goes unused for analytics because it's simply too unorganized, but AI is here to solve that problem. OmniAI has raised a fresh seed round to offer tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into something that data analytics apps and AI can understand. Read More
Apple 🤝Meta AI?: Apple and Meta are apparently in talks to bring the latter's AI to a revamped version of Siri, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. Neither Meta nor Apple have yet confirmed the plans, but it makes sense for Apple to diversify its AI partnerships and for Meta to seek external validation. Apple already has a deal with OpenAI to do the same with ChatGPT. Read More
The EU wants to bring ID cards into the 21st century via a universal identity system that will, among other things, let citizens of member countries use a EU Digital Identity Wallet to store their official docs and access public and private services. The move could be seen as a reaction to how much Big Tech controls people's data today. Read More
The future of TV looks a lot like its past: According to a report by the New York Times, all the big streaming companies are focusing on profitability, and to get there, they want more ads and are planning to push subscription prices higher. Inevitably, that could mean the future of streaming will see more content that advertisers like: washed out cop shows and procedurals. Maybe it's time to look to the high seas again for quality content? Read More
Meta's AI chatbot comes to India: Meta is bringing its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot to India. Indians will start seeing the AI chatbot in their search bars across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Facebook. Read More
Will AI start sounding like people or like itself? In our latest edition of the Women in AI series, Dominic-Madori Davis interviewed Anika Collier Navaroli, who is, among other things, a Technology Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project. One of her biggest fears about AI? When models have trained themselves on all human-made data and start training on synthetic data, it's going to result in a feedback loop to hell. Read More
