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Apple, Apps, bytedance

Apple lists all apps it removed alongside TikTok in the U.S.

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

In a rare move amid the TikTok shutdown, Apple has published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the U.S. The iPhone maker typically doesn’t publish information when it blocks apps. Notably, other ByteDance apps, including CapCut, Lemon8 — which surged in the last few months — and […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/apple-lists-all-apps-it-removed-alongside-tiktok-in-the-u-s/

AI, LLMs, research, TC

AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

Top LLMs performed poorly on a high-level history test, a new paper has found.

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-isnt-very-good-at-history-new-paper-finds/

Google, Security, Startups

Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are at particular risk of having their data stolen. This ranges from their private Slack messages to Social Security numbers and, potentially, bank accounts. The researcher who discovered the […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/employees-of-failed-startups-are-at-special-risk-of-stolen-personal-data-through-old-google-logins/

adam mosseri, Apps, Instagram

Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

Meta Sunday announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban. Instagram head Adam Mosseri (pictured above) said on Threads that the app will launch next month on iOS, with an Android version […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/meta-announces-a-new-video-editing-app-called-edits-amidst-tiktok-and-capcut-ban/

AI, Government & Policy, pentagon, TC

The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense a “significant advantage” in identifying, tracking, […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/the-pentagon-says-ai-is-speeding-up-its-kill-chain/

AI, ai benchmarks, benchmarking, frontiermath

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath. […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-benchmarking-organization-criticized-for-waiting-to-disclose-funding-from-openai/

Kevin Hartz, PayPal, Venture, xoom

From recruiting for Palantir to landing a plane on Highway 85: meet defense tech’s wildest power broker

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries.

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/from-recruiting-for-palantir-to-landing-on-highway-85-meet-defense-techs-wildest-power-broker/