Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPassionfroot is a marketplace for business-focused content creators looking for brand partnerships — and vice versa
As the creator economy is growing rapidly, brand partnerships remain one of the prime ways creators can earn money. Other services like link-in-bio a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tim Cook's safe choice, Meta's Ray Bans hot sellers, Meta suspends accounts tracking celebs, Zoom partners with Suki, and Highlight spins out of Medal
This week’s cover of WSJ Magazine is extremely minimalistic. That’s not surprising given that the main story is an in-depth interview with Tim Cook, …
1 year, 10 months ago
Meta tests facial recognition for spotting ‘celeb-bait’ ads scams and easier account recovery
Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Mon…
1 year, 10 months ago
Perplexity looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation, Lyft is working on a ‘service animal opt-in feature’, DJI sues Department of Defense, and Can AI sandbag safety checks?
AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street J…
1 year, 10 months ago
Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’
OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World, and shows new iris-scanning ‘Orb’ to prove your humanity
Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “co…
1 year, 10 months ago
Instagram rolls out new safety features to protect teens from sextortion
Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, …
1 year, 10 months ago
Can AI make us feel less alone? The founder of Manifest thinks so
Amy Wu, founder of the AI-based mental health app Manifest, has a bold prediction for the next wave of tech. “Separately from the AI trend, I think s…
1 year, 10 months ago
Doctors complain of IT ‘in the stone age’, Waymo's honking apology, Mastodon toys, and more
The United Kingdom’s NHS — the world’s largest public health service — is working on creaking IT infrastructure. In any sector, that’s a ticking time…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Tesla’s plans for ‘unsupervised FSD’ and robotaxis could run into red tape
During Tesla’s much-hyped robotaxi reveal event last week, CEO Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to release an “unsupervised” version of FSD, the autom…
1 year, 10 months ago