BTS‘s Jin recently held a once-in-a-lifetime hug event to celebrate the end of his military service with the ARMY. Thousands of fans were lucky enough to meet Jin in person… Jin with fans at his hug event | @forbtsandtae_/X …but some people have had fanfiction-worthy moments with him when they least expected it. 1. Jin […]
Storyblok raises $80M to bring more AI into its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: print and traditional media first got augmented by websites, and now websites are being augmented by an exponential landscape of apps, social media platforms, new kinds of screens, and content created not by humans, but by, artificial intelligence. […]
People are using AI music generators to create hateful songs
Malicious actors are abusing generative AI music tools to create homophobic, racist, and propagandic songs — and publishing guides instructing others how to do so. According to ActiveFence, a service for managing trust and safety operations on online platforms, there’s been a spike in chatter within “hate speech-related” communities since March about ways to misuse […]
Bootstrapped for over a decade, this Dallas company just secured $110M to help people pay bills by text
Solutions by Text, a company that gives people a way to pay their bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has secured $ 110 million in new growth funding. Edison Partners and StepStone Group co-led the equity portion of the raise while Stifel Venture Bank provided a lending facility, which made up less than […]
AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people
AI models are always surprising us, not just in what they can do, but what they can’t, and why. An interesting new behavior is both superficial and revealing about these systems: they pick random numbers as if they’re human beings. But first, what does that even mean? Can’t people pick a number randomly? And how […]