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Endless swiping has left a generation of singles burned out. But get real: dating assistants and AI-aided chats will never recreate the friction of real romance After years of shrinking usage and tumbling stock prices, the dating app Bumble is teasing a major change to its product. But in solving one problem, it might be walking right into another. The company told Axios this month that it’s getting rid of a dating app mainstay: the swipe. The feature made it easy for people to carelessly flick through photos, said CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, leading to a user experience with too many dead-end conversations. Going forward, Bumble will focus on features that make for deeper, more meaningful connections, she said. Namely, an AI assistant named “Bee”. While it’s still unclear exactly what Bee will do, its responsibilities will include punching up users’ profiles by suggesting better options for their photos and personal blurbs. Bumble says it will also use AI to chat with people about their d

AI chip startup Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, according to reporting by Axios, as the company pivots toward hosting inference-heavy applications for developers and enterprises. The fundraise follows a $20 billion not-an-acquisition agreement with Nvidia in December, under which senior Groq employees joined the chip giant and Nvidia […]

Corporate America rethinks AI investments as hidden costs and irrational spending behaviors come to light. The post Ranjan Roy: Corporate America is rationing AI as costs skyrocket, the hype around generative AI is hindering meaningful development, and 82% of token spending fails to yield productive outcomes | Big Technology appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.

The post USD/CHF Price Forecast: US Dollar clings above 0.7830 with bearish pressure growing appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The US Dollar (USD) is trading flat against the Swiss Franc (CHF) on Friday, attempting to hold above 0.7830 after rejection at the 0.7900 area on Thursday. News of an extension of the US-Iran truce has boosted a moderate appetite for risk and is weighing on the safe-haven US Dollar across the board. Axios reported on Thursday that the US and Iran had reached a memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire for 60 days, although the agreement is still pending the signature of US President Donald Trump. Hopes of peace in Iran have offset the positive USD impact of the strong US Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index figures seen on Thursday, which keep hopes of a Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike alive. In Switzerland, the KOF Leading Indicator has shown marginal improvement in economic activity in April, with no relevant impact on the Swiss F

Rising AI costs challenge corporate budgets, prompting strategic shifts and reevaluation of AI investments amid limited ROI and adoption. The post Corporate America starts to ration AI as costs soar beyond expectations appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030, though acknowledges it could be here in 2029 — or even sooner. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis said that today’s AI agents — systems capable of performing tasks independently — should be viewed as a sort of “practice run” for significantly more powerful AI in the future. He also warned that governments, economists, and society at large are not taking this development seriously enough. One particular risk he highlighted is that AI systems in the future might begin to improve their own development. “All the leading labs are pretty focused on that,” Hassabis told Axios. “It will yield clear benefits in the form of faster research. But there are also risks associated with that type of system.”