Backflip raises $15 million to help real estate investors flip houses, The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI

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Backflip raises $15 million to help real estate investors flip houses. - Link

The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles. - Link

Humanoid robots are learning to fall well. - Link

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022. - Link

AI is making Meta's apps tricky to use, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram. - Link

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