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META
Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
Meta has rolled out Pocket nationwide, an app that turns prompts into small interactive posts called gizmos. It came from the team behind Gizmo, which Meta hired in March and whose original app was wound down on the day Pocket launched.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month
Outer Biosciences has emerged from four years of silence with $23mn raised, in a field Europe created demand for when it banned animal testing in cosmetics
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the $1.5 billion company Anthropic set up with Blackstone to sell AI implementation, has acquired Casper Studios. It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed since May, and the announcement gives no price.
DATA AND SECURITY
TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023
The settlement ends a case begun in 2024 over under-13s on the platform, with no admission of liability and compliance terms that outlast the money