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Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player Jun 07, 2024

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Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the e-commerce giant to make its services and brand popular in smaller cities and towns in the key overseas market.

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Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service Jun 06, 2024

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Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.

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Asana introduces ‘AI teammates’ designed to work alongside human employees Jun 06, 2024

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Asana is using its work graph to train LLMs with the goal of creating AI assistants that work alongside human employees in company workflows.

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GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M Jun 05, 2024

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GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI.

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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool Jun 05, 2024

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Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips.

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Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month Jun 04, 2024

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Spotify has announced that it’s hiking subscriptions for customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year.

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X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content Jun 04, 2024

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X will now allow users to post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such.

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Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears Jun 03, 2024

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Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social networks ahead of next month’s European Elections.

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Instagram now lets teens limit interactions to their ‘Close Friends’ group to combat harassment Jun 03, 2024

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Instagram is expanding the scope of its "Limits" tool specifically for teenagers that would let them restrict unwanted interactions with people.

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Billionaire Groupon founder Lefkofsky is back with another IPO: AI healthtech Tempus Jun 01, 2024

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Eric Lefkofsky knows the public listing rodeo well and is about to enter it for a fourth time.

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