When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s recent election using fake social media accounts, something unusual stood out about the most successful profiles.
They were female, or at least that’s what they appeared to be. Fake profiles that claimed to be
Databricks and Shutterstock have developed a new text-to-image diffusion model similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but without the risk of copyright violations.
Most image generators are trained on images scraped from the web, but ImageAI, as it’s called, is trained only on Shutterstock images. That means there’s no risk of copyright infringement lawsuits resulting from the AI producing images closely derived from those of unpaid creators.
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Gain insights into algorithm updates and their effects on Google search rankings for different industries in this latest analysis.
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Google launches custom event data import for GA4, enabling businesses to combine external data sources with Google Analytics data for enhanced reporting.
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Get started with Google Search Console and take control of your website's performance in the search results. Boost rankings and fix issues with ease.
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Amid a global race for semiconductor leadership, an Aachen-based startup has raised €254.4mn for its chip technology in a big boost for the German as well as the European semiconductor sector. Brothers Daniel and Sebastian Schall launched Black Semiconductor i
Stability AI today launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, which the British startup calls its “most advanced text-to-image open model yet.” Comprised of 2 billion parameters, SD3 Medium promises photorealistic results without complex workflows. Crucially, the mode
During the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s long-awaited entry into artificial intelligence took shape. While a recent OpenAI conference showing off new tech evoked comparisons to the title character in the 2013 film Her, Apple Intelligence brought to mind someone else: Gary from Veep.
For the uninitiated, Gary (Tony Hale
It’s been a big week for Apple—and an even bigger week for Apple investors. Yesterday, the company’s stock (ticker AAPL) closed at an all-time high of $207.15 per share, according to data from Yahoo Finance. AAPL shares climbed 7.26% in one day—one of the biggest single-day jumps for the stock in recent memory.
The stock surge propelled Apple to a market valuation of over $3.17 trillion. But just why did AAPL shares have one of their best trading days in a long time yesterday? Here
Many of us seemed to have already fallen in love with our iPhones well before Spike Jonze’s techno-love story Her took that concept ">all the way. On its tenth anniversary last fall, Her attracted plenty of ">fresh analysis about its prophe
Amsterdam has refused to grant Cargoroo a new license to operate its shared cargo ebike rental service in the Dutch capital. Instead, it has handed over exclusive operating rights to BAQME, an upstart rival from Rotterdam. The City first
Say quantum technologies and most people probably still imagine something decades into the future. But, as a new report released today demonstrates, quantum is already here — especially as it relates to the telecom industry. After years of increme
If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need
When Raspberry Pi launched, in 2012, it was a tech tinkerer’s dream come true.
With a price of just $35, the credit card-sized computer was an inexpensive way for students to learn new programming languages, but it quickly became a platform for all kinds of creative tech projects. With
Google discontinues support for rich results associated with Covid-era livestreamed events, classes and pre-recorded videos
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Discover the secrets behind Google ad auctions: explore how understanding these dynamics can improve your return on investment and business outcomes.
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Black Semiconductor, a pioneer in next-generation chip technology, announced €228.7 million round, one of the largest funding for a deep tech company manufacturing chips in Europe to date. The company has secured the public funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia over the next 7 years under […]
Light, the creator of a fully automated general ledger for multinationals, has come out of stealth today with a €12.1 million seed round to scale the first AI-powered general ledger for automating global company finances. The round was led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Entrée Capital, Cherry Ventures and Seedcamp. In addition, a […]
Rivia, a Swiss startup specializing in AI-driven analytics and clinical trial data infrastructure for Biotechs, has secured a €3 million seed funding round led by Speedinvest. The funds will be used to hire new teams across engineering and client services, and will also advance product development to fully harness the potential of integrated trial data […]
SpaceX’s next rideshare launch is almost upon us, and that means satellite companies have spent the last quarter scrambling to obtain the government permission they need to operate their spacecraft—a challenge that can take them by surprise.
Case study
Take Aethero, a firm developing edge computing in space. It’s launching a
YouTube is rolling out thumbnail A/B testing to all channels, letting you optimize videos for higher watch time.
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it planned to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to dramatically boost the production of compound semiconductors used in satellites and spacecraft.
The award for Rocket Lab unit SolAero Technologies Corp. “would help create a more robust and resilient supply of space-grade solar cells that power spacecrafts and satel
Ancestry.com is releasing a new collection of searchable newspaper articles published before the 1900s that contain details on formerly enslaved people in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday.
The database, which is free to access, could help Black Americans discover more information about their families’ pasts. The tool
WeWork CEO David Tolley stepped down after the flexible workspace provider emerged from bankruptcy on Tuesday, bookending a months-long restructuring process that featured a strategy revamp and exits from several locations.
The company named commercial real estate industry veteran John Santora as its new to
Artificial intelligence has wowed me, but it was never something I wanted to use daily, especially because it required a cumbersome number of apps and subscriptions, depending on the task.
And then there was the privacy issue. Using AI even for scheduling or communicating with colleagues entailed blindly trusting that big, data-hungry AI companies wouldn’t a
Google revised their structured data guidelines to enhance brand panels in a way that may improve merchant search traffic and sales
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The Local SEO guides you need to expand your local presence and visibility, all in one place.
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In this episode, Alexa Montelibano and Tiago Torre, sales engineers at Stack Overflow, take you behind the scenes to show how customer feedback shapes our products, including OverflowAI. Alexa and Tiago have been working with clients to explore the three features of OverflowAI—Enhanced Search, an Auto-answer App for Slack and Microsoft Teams, and an IDE extension. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/11/overflow-ai-enhanced-search-slack-ide-sales-engineering/
We know from reports earlier this year that VC investment is once more on the rise for European startups. And the wave of optimism seems to be continuing — at least for the continent’s deep tech sector. Munich’s Vsquared Ventures today announced
Google's Gary Illyes reveals lastmod signal treatment is binary - trusted completely or ignored.
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This article features an interview with Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga, who is speaking at TNW Conference on June 21. Check out the full event schedule here. Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga has reason to celebrate. His company recently became the first “pre-loved” c
The startup landscape in 2024 has undergone a significant shift. A recent report from Pitchbook highlights that fewer rounds are taking place. Gone are the days of funding rounds fueled by inflated valuations based on the ‘potential’ for a business to disrupt or soaring user numbers. Economic headwinds have made angel investors more cautious, prioritizing […]
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France’s (and Europe’s) GenAI darling Mistral has reportedly almost tripled its valuation, reaching €5.8bn. First reported by Sifted and later confirmed by the Financial Times, the Paris-based startup has raised a €468mn equity funding round, led by DST global
Yesterday, Apple jumped headfirst into the AI race. In addition to introducing its new operating systems, including iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, the company unveiled Apple Intelligence—its implementation of artificial intelligence.
Apple Intelligence isn’t a generative AI app or just a chatbot like ChatGPT. Rather, it’s an integrated layer of artificial intelligence embedded in Apple’s upcoming operating systems
A Tesla shareholder vote on Thursday on whether to reinstate CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package that was shot down by a Delaware judge will not provide a quick resolution, irrespective of the tally’s results.
Tesla’s board is hoping sharehol
Google's Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from "add to cart" URLs, preventing wasted server resources.
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Cognigy, a global leader in AI-first customer service automation, announced today that it has raised €93 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Eurazeo Growth, with participation from existing investors Insight Partners, DTCP and DN Capital and others. The new funding will accelerate Cognigy’s mission to deliver AI-first customer service at scale. […]
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A UK startup has used an AI algorithm to identify a previously unknown kind of rare-earth free magnet, in a potential breakthrough for how we discover and create new materials. Materials Nexus, headquartered in London, used its machine learnin
When generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) emerged prominently in late 2022, it quickly became the next big thing. McKinsey also got inspired, not only publishing extensively on the topic but also realizing that it could use gen AI to help bring together the company’s vast but separate knowledge sources.
One of the fun things about being a Silicon Valley executive is that there are so many different ways to make money.
Sam Altman, CEO of AI powerhouse OpenAI, also runs a famed startup incubator called Y Combinator. That position afforded him the opportunity in 2013 to meet a new company in the nuclear power business, Oklo, which he invested in. Altman was intrigued by the Oklo’s mission to make a more-efficient nuclear reactor to
Maximize campaign performance with Google Ads automation settings. Be the ultimate decision-maker for your account and exert more control over your advertising efforts.
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The M. Demajo Group stands as a distinguished business entity in Malta, boasting a storied legacy of triumph in various sectors across numerous decades. Originally specializing in wine and spirits importation, the group’s post-war expansion into manufacturing, retail, graphic arts, and large-scale projects marked the beginning of an era of diversified success. Aligning with Malta’s […]
Cardino, a pioneer in the used electric vehicle (EV) market, announced a €4 million seed funding round spearheaded by Point Nine. The funding round was supported by an array of distinguished angel investors and notable figures, including key investors from platforms like Rosberg Ventures, Vinted.com, Bolt, HomeToGo, Dance and HeyJobs. Cardino was founded in 2022 […]
In May, a research team from MIT announced a new programming language. Finch, its creators say, is “a simple bytecode interpreted, purely object-oriented, prototype-based, dynamically-typed programming language.” Not to be confused with the Swedish fintech of the
Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the ">heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball when they light up as meteors
Confused by recent Google updates? Download our latest Google Ranking ebook and learn valuable insights and tips from 11 SEO experts.
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Why is Google ranking a hyphenated domain name site for "SEO" related keywords it's clearly not relevant for?
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Vsquared Ventures, one of Europe’s leading early-stage deep tech funds, announced the successful final closing of its latest fund, Vsquared II. Vsquared closes Vsquared II oversubscribed at €214 million, above the initial target size of €165 million. The fund is the largest European early-stage deep tech fund to date, cementing the deep tech momentum in […]
Haaven, a startup streamlining the complex homebuilding industry, has secured €1.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Speedinvest, paving the way for expansion in Italy and The Netherlands. Joining Speedinvest in this funding round were Dutch VC firm Golden Egg Check and notable angel investors, including Quintin Schevernels (ex-CEO of Funda), Mike de Boer […]
CampusAI raised €9.2 million of pre-seed funding, a record for a Polish startup, to develop its online training ecosystem, enter as many as 10 new markets and teach 200,000 new users how to collaborate better with artificial intelligence. The funding round, led by Polish angel investor Maciej Zientara, founder of Supernova Group and a partner […]
Just last month, the Guardian described the housing crisis in Amsterdam as “next level.” And things are not much better across Europe as a whole. Prices and rents are soaring across the continent, and the lack of availability is staggering.
Zeliq, a AI sales solution provider, has raised €9.2 million in seed financing. The round was led by Exor Ventures, the holding company of Italy’s Agnelli family renowned for its investments in French unicorns Qonto and Alan, and supported by Resonance VC, which also invested at pre-seed stage. The latest round was heavily oversubscribed and […]
When OpenAI launched the voice assistant ChatGPT-4o in May, users quickly noticed some eerie similarities to the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the film’s AI assistant, Samantha, even called out the company for producing a voice so indistinguishab
At long last, Apple has finally entered the AI race. The company announced on Monday a raft of new AI-driven features at its WWDC developer conference, as well as a new partnership with
OpenAI named Sarah Friar as its CFO and Kevin Weil as CPO, the artificial intelligence company announced Monday.
The move to bring in the two Silicon Valley veterans comes as the company is expanding its partnerships and ramping up its
Google's Search Liaison responds to the idea of CTR for ranking and to suggestions of connections with the HCU
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Apple unveils ChatGPT integration, sparking concerns about search, discoverability, and closed ecosystems.
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft scored a crucial achievement last week with the delivery of two astronauts to the International Space Station, but problems encountered along its journey in space and more hurdles that lie ahead make the aerospace
With major Tesla shareholders appearing divided over whether to endorse Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the company also is looking for support from retail investors who make up an unusually high percentage of the electric carmaker’s ownership base.
A U.S. appeals court struck down a bid by Uber and its subsidiary, Postmates, on Monday that tried to reignite a challenge to a California law that could force certain companies to treat gig workers as employees rather than independent contractors.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court ruling, saying that the plaintiffs have failed to show that the law, known as AB 5, unfairly si
Google to update GA4 attribution, correcting paid search conversion tracking while potentially impacting ad budgets.
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The Netherlands is the number one startup ecosystem in the EU, surpassing both Paris and Berlin. That’s according to the 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) by Startup Genome, which ranked the Netherlands at 14 globally. According to the report, the co
Google's Search Console now provides ecommerce sites data on product listing performance across Google's shopping surfaces.
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The European Commission today launched the first version of Destination Earth (DestinE), an AI-powered simulator that looks to improve the accuracy of climate predictions. The first version of DestinE includes two models: one for extreme weather events and an