27 h. ago Taylor Swift Makes HUGE Donation To Help Young Swiftie Battling Brain Cancer!

Taylor Swift is so generous to her Swifties! Right after Ruby Rose gushed about how the singer goes on GoFundMe like it’s a social media app, and donates to people as if she’s hitting the “like” button, Tay Tay proved the chatter to be real. On Friday, the 35-year-old dropped a HUGE donation on the [...] Read More... The post Taylor Swift Makes HUGE Donation To Help Young Swiftie Battling Brain Cancer! appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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38 h. ago Longtime Seattle arts nonprofit will move into Amazon building

Longtime Seattle arts nonprofit will move into Amazon building  The Seattle Times

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49 h. ago Seattle police investigating homicide of boy, 4, at apartment building

Seattle police investigating homicide of boy, 4, at apartment building  The Seattle Times

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61 h. ago General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips

Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.

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1 week ago Towers planned near Los Angeles Times building in DTLA ‘on hold’ amid inflation woes

Towers planned near Los Angeles Times building in DTLA ‘on hold’ amid inflation woes  KTLA

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1 week ago Prominent Union Square building sells for first time in nearly 50 years

Prominent Union Square building sells for first time in nearly 50 years  The Business Journals

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1 week ago WIRED Roundup: The New Fake World of OpenAI’s Social Video App

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down some of the week's best stories, covering everything from Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist to the launch of OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app.

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2 w. ago How Los Angeles shoppers can build a truly sustainable secondhand wardrobe

How Los Angeles shoppers can build a truly sustainable secondhand wardrobe  Los Angeles Times

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2 w. ago OpenAI’s new social app is filled with terrifying Sam Altman deepfakes

OpenAI's Sora app makes it too easy for people to create misleading AI content.

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2 w. ago Graffiti framework lets people personalize online social spaces while staying connected with others

Say a local concert venue wants to engage its community by giving social media followers an easy way to share and comment on new music from emerging artists. Rather than working within the constraints of existing social platforms, the venue might want to create its own social app with the functionality that would be best for its community. But building a new social app from scratch involves many complicated programming steps, and even if the venue can create a customized app, the organization's followers may be unwilling to join the new platform because it could mean leaving their connections and data behind.

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2 w. ago Permits show Seattle Times moving to Vulcan building in South Lake Union

Permits show Seattle Times moving to Vulcan building in South Lake Union  The Business Journals

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2 w. ago OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model

The social app Sora will let users generate videos of themselves and their friends, which they can share in a TikTok-like feed.

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3 w. ago Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

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3 w. ago These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and […]

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3 w. ago Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify a military buildup and strikes in Latin America

Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify a military buildup and strikes in Latin America  Los Angeles Times

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3 w. ago Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to build data centers

Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to build data centers  Los Angeles Times

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3 w. ago A Seattle veterans hall honors the past while building community

A Seattle veterans hall honors the past while building community  The Seattle Times

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4 w. ago Gunfire shatters window at ABC10 station building in Sacramento, police say

Gunfire shatters window at ABC10 station building in Sacramento, police say  Los Angeles Times

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