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Having Fun!

​[[{“value”:” One of my favorite parts of studying abroad this far has been all of the fun activities I have gotten the opportunity to participate in! My program plans two activities each week for us to take advantage of if we choose to do so. These activities range from active adventures to casual events. For this post, I will be…

Stability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chips

​[[{“value”:” AI startup Stability AI has teamed up with chipmaker Arm to bring Stability’s Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to mobile devices running Arm chips. While a number of AI-powered apps can generate audio, like Suno and Udio, most rely on cloud processing, meaning that they can’t be […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI

​[[{“value”:” Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant that’s touted as a “fully private” alternative to letting data-mining cloud giants crawl all over your personal information.   The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security

​[[{“value”:” The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks via […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Opera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browser

​[[{“value”:” Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo video, the company showed the AI agent finding a right pair of socks from Walmart; securing tickets for a football match from the club’s site; and looking up a flight and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?

​[[{“value”:” Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded free app on iOS and Android for all categories, per data from multiple app-tracking platforms such as Sensor Tower. The app has experienced surges in popularity through the years, often in response […] © 2024 TechCrunch….