Changpeng Zhao, founder of crypto exchange Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering last November.
The sentence is far below what prosecutors had suggested—and lower than the guidelines for the crimes (which were 12-18 months). Zhao
Bumble unveiled a fresh look on Tuesday, marking what the company hopes is a new chapter for the decade-old dating app. The app, which stands apart from its competitors by requiring women to send the first message with male connections, now has a new logo, bolder fonts, and refreshed colors and illustrations.
“As with any big birthday, it’s been a time of reflection,” Bumble Senior Product Manager Dara Alsulayman said in a recorded presentation to reporters. “It also has
Work marketplace Upwork is introducing its first “mindful artificial intelligence” solution that it believes will power the future of work on the platform.
The AI, called Uma, is built for both freelancers and employers alike. Initially it can handle a handful of tasks. Job posters, for example, can use Uma to formulate a proposal that best describes a project they need to staff. On the flip side, the AI helps understand whether a freelancer’s skillset matches an
Instant delivery platform Getir has announced it is leaving nearly every market it operates in to focus on its home country of Turkey, according to multiple media reports. This includes withdrawing from the United States, the United Kingdom, and most countries in Europe—and with those withdrawals, thousands of jobs will be eliminated.
Getir was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Istanbul. The company allowed users to order a variety of grocery products and have them delivered
A coin called TON has leapt in value in recent months, with investors betting its integration with messenger service Telegram could bring the cryptocurrency to the app’s estimated 900 million users.
Telegram endorsed TON in September last year, saying the blockchain and associated token would be its “official Web3 infrastructure”. Earlier thi
Milton Perez spent more than five years living in New York City’s shelter system before he found an affordable apartment in Brooklyn through a housing lottery. Having a place of his own was a relief for Perez, who is a leader with the Vocal NY Homelessness Union. But it was also a cellular dead zone, and like millions of other New Yorkers—and millions more people across the country—Perez couldn’t affor
Six Flags is aiming to change the way guests interact with its parks—including using artificial intelligence to support those changes.
On Monday the amusement park giant announced what it called a “complete digital transformation” of its operations, updating everything from its rides to its website. It’s also introducing an AI-driven “digital concierge” that will live on the company’s app and website.
“Our guests are at the heart of everything we do, and this
Twenty years in, Yelp is turning to AI to help bring restaurant reviews to life.
The reviews behemoth is testing AI to create short narrated videos describing local businesses by stitching together the photos, videos, and text descriptions that users have already uploaded to the platform.
It’s part of an ongoing push by Yelp to process the hundreds of millions of reviews it’s collected with large language model AI to hel
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.
The FCC is finalizing fines first proposed in February 2020, including $80 million for T-Mobile; $12 million for Sprint, which T-Mobile has since acquired; $57 million
OpenAI announced on Monday that its popular ChatGPT chatbot will now remember user details including basic information, hobbies, and prompt history. The chatbot’s enhanced memory will be available only to subscribers of the $20/month ChatGPT Plus service.
Memory is now avai