Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage
Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify’s popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.
Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify’s popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.
In the past, users had to upload a full-body picture of themselves to virtually try on a piece of clothing. Now, they can use a selfie and Nano Banana will generate a full body digital version of them.
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A pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi Monday night en route to UCSF Medical Center, marking the latest milestone in the driverless car saga that no one saw coming — except everyone with more than six months of experience behind the wheel of a ride-share vehicle.
As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex tasks. Try playing Sudoku with one, for instance, where you fill in numbers one through nine in such a way that each appears only once across the columns, rows, and sections of a nine-by-nine grid. Your AI opponent will either fail […]
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins promises “structural changes to SNAP” after Thanksgiving, following her controversial mass recertification proposal. But Cato’s Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman argue in a new blog post that the real problem isn’t paperwork—it’s incentives. lead , States have zero financial stake in preventing fraud because Washington pays 100% of the benefits costs. Boccia and Turman explain why block-granting SNAP and shifting fiscal responsibility to states would actually strengthen program integrity. If you’d like to set up an interview […]
NVIDIA’s AI Podcast gives listeners the inside scoop on the ways AI is transforming nearly every industry. Since the show’s debut in 2016, it’s garnered more than 6 million listens across 200-plus episodes, covering how generative AI is used to power applications including assistive technology for the visually impaired, wildfire alert systems and the Roblox online game platform. Here are the top five episodes of 2024: Driving Energy Efficiency, Sustainability The AI Podcast · NVIDIA’s Josh Parker on […]
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues around WhatsApp on both Android and iPhone demonstrate how these interactions can go sideways, risking revealing chat conversations beyond what you intend. Users deserve better controls and clearer documentation around what these AI features can access. After diving into how Google Gemini and Apple Intelligence […]
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