Former LSU gymnast Livvy Dunne is the definition of an athlete that has gone viral and turned into a social media star. She has over 5 million followers on Instagram, 8 million on TikTok, and has set the internet abuzz with everything from appearing in the 2024 SI Swimsuit Issue to cheering on her boyfriend, Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes.
While the Supreme Court did not drop the highly anticipated decision regarding former President Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity ahead of Thursday's debate, here's a roundup of all the opinions it did issue on June 27.
MagicSchool AI, which is building generative AI tools for educational environments, has closed a Series A round of $15 million led by Bain Capital Ventures. Denver-based MagicSchool got its start with tools for educators, and founder and CEO Adeel Khan said in an interview that it now has around 4,000 teachers and schools using its products to plan lessons, write tests, and produce other learning materials.
AI bigshot Andrew Ng's AI Fund, a startup incubator that backs small teams of experts looking to solve key problems using AI, plans to raise upwards of $120 million for its second tranche. A filing with the SEC shows that the AI Fund's second fund, AI Venture Fund II, has so far amassed $69.75 million from 13 partners -- leaving around $50 million to be invested. The AI Fund's PR declined to comment.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The social media company's announcement comes on the same day as a16z-backed chatbot company Character.ai is rolling out the ability for users to talk with AI avatars over a call. In a post on his broadcast channel, Zuckerberg noted that these chatbots will be clearly marked as AI so users are aware.
The CDK Global cyberattack outage that crippled dealerships across North America appears to be finally on a path toward resolution, but lost sales and service revenue could be substantial.
A reliable gadget leaker, named Evan Blass, just published images of a bunch of unannounced Samsung devices. There’s the Galaxy Watch 7, Watch Ultra and new earbuds.