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Twitter rival Mammoth adds a personalized For You feed to make its Mastodon client feel familiar

While Instagram Threads is making headlines for adding a chronological Following feed to its Twitter-like app, another popular Mastodon client is doing the opposite — it’s adding a new algorithmic For You feed instead. Mammoth, one of the apps co-founded by a former Twitter app developer and now backed by Mozilla, says it will begin to test a personalized feed in its own third-party client for the decentralized social network known as Mastodon, a competitor of sorts for Twitter’s user base. The addition is notable because of the complaints surrounding Mastodon, which some have found too difficult to use. As

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YouTube offers new NFL Sunday Ticket deal for Verizon customers

Verizon and YouTube announced Wednesday a new NFL Sunday Ticket offering for new Verizon mobile and home internet customers. Starting July 27, new Verizon customers who sign up for eligible home internet (Fios 1 Gig, Fios 2 Gig, 5G Home Plus and LTE Home Plus) or mobile services will get one free season of NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Customers that buy select smartphone models with the Unlimited Plus mobile plan  — including, Motorola Edge Plus, Google Pixel Fold, Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, among others — can also take advantage of the promotion. Existing customers

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AWS launches new healthcare-focused services, powered by generative AI

Amazon is expanding its range of health-focused apps and services with a platform that offers AI tools to help clinicians transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients. At its annual AWS Summit conference in New York, Amazon unveiled AWS HealthScribe, an API to create transcripts, extract details and create summaries from doctor-patient discussions that can be entered into an electronic health record (EHR) system. The transcripts from HealthScribe can be converted into patient notes by the platform’s machine learning models, Amazon says, which can then be analyzed for broad insights. “Documentation is a particularly time-consuming effort for healthcare professionals, which

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Linktree is now letting users add Threads on their profile

Link-in-bio company Linktree is now offering features for creators to integrate their Threads account into their profile. With this roll-out, users can add a link to their Threads profile on their Linktree with a social icon. They can also show off some of their posts. The company said that free users will have to pick and choose the posts to embed on their pages. However, in the coming days, Linktree Pro users will be able to include an embed that fetches their latest Threads posts automatically. Linktree cited the ongoing saga of Twitter’s rebranding to “X” and said a platform

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Generative AI capabilities come to Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight, Amazon’s business intelligence service, is getting a few upgrades — courtesy of generative AI. Announced at AWS Summit New York this afternoon, QuickSight will soon be able to generate visuals, fine-tune and format those visuals when given instructions in natural language and create calculations from commands without specific syntax. On the QuickSight home dashboard, users will soon see a new drop-down “Ask Q” option near the top toolbar. Clicking on it will prompt them to describe the data that they’d like to visualize using natural language, such as “top customers” or “shoes,” or a more precise description like

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Amazon expands Bedrock with conversational agents and new third-party models

Amazon continues to march unencumbered toward a generative AI future. At AWS Summit New York, one of its annual conferences, Amazon announced the launch in preview of Agents for Bedrock — Bedrock being Amazon’s platform that provides a way to build generative AI-powered apps via pretrained models from startups as well as Amazon itself. Agents allows customers to create conversational agents to deliver personalized, up-to-date answers based on their proprietary data and execute actions. In a briefing, Swami Sivasubramanian, the VP of machine learning at AWS, told TechCrunch that a company could use Agents to create a customer service chatbot

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Microsoft, PayPal partner to bring Venmo support to the Microsoft Store and Xbox store

Microsoft and PayPal are expanding their partnership to allow Xbox owners in the United States to use Venmo as a payment method for games, movies, TV shows, and apps from the Xbox store. Customers can also use the new payment method for Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. When consumers pay with Venmo, they’ll have the option to purchase subscriptions or split payments upon purchase. Additionally, PayPal’s Pay Later option is now available for the Microsoft Store in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. With PayPal Pay Later, eligible consumers can pay for their purchases evenly over

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Stability AI releases its latest image-generating model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges. Today, Stability AI announced the launch of Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, a text-to-image model that the company describes as its “most advanced” release to date. Available in open source on GitHub in addition to Stability’s API and consumer apps, Clipdrop and DreamStudio, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 delivers “more vibrant” and “accurate” colors and better contrast, shadows and lighting compared to its predecessor, Stability claims. In an interview with TechCrunch, Joe Penna, Stability AI’s head of applied machine learning, noted

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Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s results indicate the AI game is more of a long-term strategy

Alphabet’s and Microsoft’s quarterly results have sent their respective shares in opposite directions. Alphabet’s stock is up about 6% in morning trading, while Microsoft’s is off a little more than 3.6%. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. It’s not too useful to compare the two companies’ overall performance given their varied product lines and the different economic conditions they have to navigate. But when it comes to AI-related costs and revenues, they share enough surface area that their comments are worth comparing. This earnings season, we’re

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Twitter, now X, took over the @x handle without warning or compensating its owner

The owner of the @x Twitter handle confirmed that the company, now known as X, took over his account without warning or financial compensation, telling him the handle is a property of X. The handle had previously belonged to Gene X Hwang of the corporate photography and videography studio Orange Photography. In a letter, the company formerly known as Twitter thanked Hwang for his loyalty and offered him a selection of X merchandise and a tour of X’s HQ, as a “reflection of our appreciation.” The @x handle mishandling was only one of the many haphazard steps involved in the rebranding

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