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Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature just dropped, giving listeners a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits, and it has gained immense popularity over the years. As a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions from the past year. Here are […]

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Amazon SageMaker gets unified data controls

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It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, streamlining was the goal. At its re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS unveiled SageMaker Unified Studio, a

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AWS’ new service tackles AI hallucinations

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably. Announced at AWS’ re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, the service, Automated Reasoning checks, validates a model’s responses by cross-referencing customer-supplied info for accuracy. AWS claims in a press

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is almost here, but first let’s explore all the copycats 

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Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature — which is coming out soon — provides listeners with a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits, and it has gained immense popularity over the years. As a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions

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Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps

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At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation. Fast forward to the end of the year, Meta claims those fears did not play out, at least on its platforms, as it shared that the technology had

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Hypelist wants to break lists out of silos and put recommendations first

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There are plenty of services that let you build lists to track and discover new books, movies, and songs, but often, these lists end up getting siloed. Former Squarespace employee Alfonso Cobo wanted to bring all kinds of lists together, and he’s trying to do that with Hypelist. Cobo said the ethos behind creating Hypelist

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Delivery app Glovo bends to Spain’s Riders Law, will hire thousands of couriers

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Glovo, a Spanish delivery app owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, has bowed to pressure over labor rights in its home market. The company announced Monday it will hire around 15,000 riders — most of them are currently “self employed” according to Glovo. Per Reuters, the company also warned of a €100 million hit to earnings.

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is almost here, but first let’s explore all the copycats 

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Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature — which is coming out soon — provides listeners with a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits, and it has gained immense popularity over the years. As a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is almost here, but first let’s explore all the copycats  Read More »