Canva adds new abilities for app developers and improves discoverability
Canva just announced new enhancements to its developer platform, such as including premium apps with its Pro subscription, a translation feature for apps, better discovery mechanisms, and new API functionalities.
The creative tool company started its developer program in June 2023 to let developer
Meta AI can now understand and edit your photos
Meta AI is starting to catch up with Google when it comes to AI-powered photo editing. On Wednesday, at the Meta Connect 2024 conference, the tech giant announced that Meta AI will now be able to help you edit photos using AI technology and answer questions about the photos you share.
The addition
Meta AI’s GenAI ‘Imagine’ features expand across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger
Meta AI’s Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram, the company announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. With the update, users will be able to use prompts to generate AI photos directly in their feed,
Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots
At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced that it's expanding its AI-powered business chatbots to brands on WhatsApp and Messenger using click-to-message ads.
Now businesses can set up ad-embedded chatbots that talk to customers, offer support, an
Meta AI gets lip-synced translations and celebrity voices, like Judi Dench and John Cena
Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts.
At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, Meta announced that Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud across platforms where it’s available: Instagram, Messenger, What
Meta discontinues Quest 2 and Quest Pro
Hidden among the Meta Connect 2024 hardware announcements comes word that the social media giant is sunsetting two key members of its Quest VR headset line. With the budget Quest 3S now up for preorder, Meta will no longer sell the Quest 2 and Quest Pro once back stock is deleted.
The end of the Q
Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until raising $12M to give them long-term memory
Marvin Purtorab, CEO of new startup Convergence, and co-founder Andy Toulis (CTO) met while they both worked at Shopify on recommender systems and AI assistants. They both joined Cohere, the AI platform for enterprises, before coming up with their startup idea only a few months ago. “I mean,
Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices
Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open source project that made building event-driven distributed applications easier for developers. Like so many popular open source projects, Dapr spawned its own ecosystem, especially after Microsoft donated it to the Linux Foundation. And as is also s
Longshot Space closes over $5M in new funding to build space gun in the desert
Why use a rocket when you could use a giant, miles-long “gun” instead?
That's the question posed by Longshot Space, a company that's completely rethinking how to send mass to orbit. The company is developing a kinetic launch system that will gradually accelerate payloads
After losing a lawsuit in Germany, Meta says it’s never getting back together with Deutsche Telekom
Consumer apps can generate a lot of traffic and revenue, yet some carriers have complained that they’re not getting a fair cut of the pie for carrying all that traffic across their network infrastructure. But if you were looking for a test case that demonstrated how the two sides might be abl
Ayrton Energy mimics margarine to store hydrogen safely
As a fuel, hydrogen has a lot going for it. You can burn it for heat to replace coal, you can run it through an electrolyzer to generate electricity, and you can use it to refuel a vehicle as quickly as gasoline or diesel. But it’s challenging to get hydrogen to where it’s needed.
As t
Meta’s Llama AI models now support images, too
Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Let me amend that phrase to reflect the current AI gold rush: Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and new AI models, with the last of those three arriving at an ever-accelerating pace.
Earlier this week, Google releas
Audible experiments with new AI features for tailored audiobook recommendations
Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages
Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
Users on domain-related forums pointed out this transfer, and technewss confirmed the Whois records of Threads.com separately, which list Meta’s Instagram as the registran