Plaid, which provides the technology that lets you swiftly connect your bank account to thousands of fintech products, is making the onboarding process even simpler.
BeReal’s days of social media dominance are long gone. The app, which offers randomized daily two-minute timers prompting users to snap a quick picture of what they’re up to, counted 23 million active users in January 2024—a steep drop from
Apple used Monday’s keynote at the annual WWDC event to unveil a roster of new software developments, product upgrades, and most importantly—their long-awaited AI play. Fast Company’s own Yasmin Gagne discusses Apple’s new high-stakes partnership with OpenAI, implications for app-based businesses, and investors’ reactions to the week’s news. Gagne also reads the tea leaves on Tim Cook’s future successor, explores whether we’ve reached “peak Apple,” and more.
Adrian Perkins was running for reelection as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, when he was surprised by a harsh campaign hit piece.
The satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal’s office. Instead of giving a tongue-lashing for cheating on a test or getting in a fight, the pr
The startup behind You.com is raising $50 million in fresh capital, a person familiar with the effort said, as it seeks a foothold in the growing market for assistants with artificial intelligence.
The near-finished Series B funding would value the four-year-old company behind You.com, SuSea Inc, between $700 million and $900 million, the person told Reuters.
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A Chinese state-run TV channel’s YouTube presence has been taken offline after repeatedly infringing the copyright of a California-based composer.
Kerry Muzzey’s music has been played in the background of TV shows like Glee and So You Think You Can Dance?—two productions that legally bought licences to play his music in their shows. But Muzzey, who is based in California, spends much of his days battling those who are less scrupulous, trying to reclaim the rights
Global concerns about the use of AI in news production and misinformation are growing, a report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found, posing fresh challenges to newsrooms already struggling to engage audiences.
The institute’s annual Di
Few cars have captured the popular imagination quite like the EV1, the pioneering electric vehicle that General Motors launched a generation ago. Approved for production in 1994 and released two years later, the EV1 wowed the auto industry, seduced the media, and seeded a community of passionate early adopters thrilled to drive a car that rendered gas stations obsolete.
The EV1 wasn’t unique only because of its fuel source; the car also introduced many features, such as regenerativ
Thirty years ago, a breakthrough technology was poised to transform how people stayed informed, entertained themselves, and maybe even shopped. I’m not talking about the World Wide Web. True, it was already getting good buzz among early adopter types. But even three years after going online, Tim Berners-Lee’s creation was “still relatively slow and crude” and “limited to perhaps two million Internet users wh
NASA has set its sights on the moon, aiming to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2026 and establish