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OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API, allowing developers to integrate it into their apps and services. OpenAI’s new image generator, which launched for most ChatGPT users in late March, went viral for its ability to create realistic Ghibli-style photos and “AI action figures.” It’s been a mixed blessing for OpenAI, leading to millions of new sign-ups for ChatGPT while also greatly straining the company’s capacity. Over 130 million ChatGPT users created more than 700 million images in just the first week of the tool’s availability, according to the company.…

For years, crypto investors have looked to the four-year cycle, anchored around Bitcoin’s halving events, as a kind of sacred roadmap. The theory goes: Every four years, Bitcoin’s supply is cut in half, triggering a bullish frenzy, followed by a euphoric peak, a brutal crash, and then a slow recovery. Rinse, repeat.But what if that model is starting to break? That is what onchain analyst James Check suggests. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Check said that the tidy frameworks that once defined Bitcoin’s market behavior are no longer as useful in today’s macro-driven, institutionally influenced environment.Rather than labeling the current…

Riot Platforms has used its massive Bitcoin stockpile as collateral to secure a $100 million credit facility from Coinbase as the cryptocurrency miner eyes continued expansion. The $100 million loan from Coinbase’s credit arm marks Riot’s “first Bitcoin-backed facility,” CEO Jason Les said in an April 23 statement.Les said the credit line will be used to fund general corporate operations and support the company’s “strategic growth initiatives.”Source: Riot PlatformsThe credit line is scheduled to mature in one year’s time, but could be extended for an additional year. The loan carries an annual interest payment of at least 9%, based on the…

Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, had 350 million monthly active users around the globe as of March, according to internal data revealed in Google’s ongoing antitrust suit. The Information first reported the stat. Usage of Google’s AI offerings has exploded in the last year. Gemini had just 9 million daily active users in October 2024, but last month, the company reportedly logged 35 million daily active users, according to its data. Gemini still lags behind the industry’s most popular AI tools, however. Google estimates that ChatGPT had roughly 600 million monthly active users in March, according to the company’s data shown…

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Trump’s tariffs have upended global trade and created an environment of uncertainty. But this situation wasn’t created in a vacuum. The rules of business have been shifting for years as technology moves quicker than regulation, geopolitics descend into turmoil, and the law erodes and becomes weaponized.  Businesses might be asking themselves, how are they meant to keep their heads above water? And what can they do to fight back?   Hence AI co-founder Sean West has some answers. With a team spread across the U.K., Rwanda, the U.S., and the Netherlands, the London-based startup has raised $5.2 million to date with…

Introduction  In 2010, Awin recognized that integrating browser extensions with earlier funnel partners such as editorial or influencers can result in a more complex consumer journey. To ensure all publisher contributions were fairly accounted for, Awin helped develop the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) code of conduct for downloadable software.   This code of conduct forms part of our network guidelines.  Our Compliance team actively monitors all publisher activity against the Awin Code of Conduct to ensure compliant activity. We continue to support industry bodies with any required updates to this.  How does Awin work with browser extensions?  All publishers that offer…

Khosla Ventures-backed Fireflies.ai, an AI-powered note-taking app, on Wednesday released a set of domain-specific “mini apps” to extract insights from meeting transcripts automatically. With the widespread availability of automatic speech recognition models and generative AI, meeting intelligence startups like Otter, Read AI, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola have registered impressive growth. Fireflies, similarly, has seen 8x expansion in terms of users and has achieved profitability, according to co-founder and CEO Krish Ramineni. To boost growth further, the startup is releasing over 200 mini apps within its platform for different roles and use cases, including sales, marketing, recruiting, operations and management, customer…

Marketing teams are under mounting pressure to deliver results on shrinking budgets, as economic uncertainty continues to put budgets under scrutiny. So, how can marketers prove the value of spending, especially on brand building, when leadership wants fast, low-cost wins? In the latest edition of Marketing Week’s webinar series The Lowdown, editor-in-chief Russell Parsons was joined by Jo McClintock, vice-president of brand and marketing at Trainline, Matt Knight, commercial director of Laithwaites Wine and Dan Roche, CMO of Workbooks CRM, to discuss how marketers can unlock more investment in brand. Here are some of the key takeaways. 1. Be hypothesis-led…

AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it’s also introducing new security challenges. More than 50% of organizations encounter security issues with AI-produced code sometimes or frequently, according to a late 2023 survey by developer security platform Synk. For Endor Labs, that opportunity proved alluring enough that it chose to change course somewhat. Endor started off helping companies secure their open source package dependencies — in fact, it even raised a $70 million Series A round just two years ago to grow its developer pipeline governance service. But the startup’s co-founders, Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, saw…