Twitter’s actually rolling out editable tweets

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Get ready to start seeing edited tweets in the wild. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to a tweet from the company, it’ll be coming to subscribers in the US “soon.” Last week, … Read more

I will defend the $700M fizzy water

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Silly season is out in venture capital land. Today investors and founders alike will bore your ears off with notes about incremental cash flow positivity and their timeline to adjusted EBITDA profitability. Lame. Despite the general boringness of today’s venture capital landscape, replete with conservative valuations, falling deal sizes, and clucking investors sitting atop a mountain of capital, … Read more

Create high-quality data for ML models with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

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Machine learning (ML) has improved business across industries in recent years—from the recommendation system on your Prime Video account, to document summarization and efficient search with Alexa’s voice assistance. However, the question remains of how to incorporate this technology into your business. Unlike traditional rule-based methods, ML automatically infers patterns from data so as to … Read more

Twitter’s edit button is rolling out to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social network announced on Monday. The company says the edit button will roll out to Blue subscribers in the U.S. soon, but didn’t provide a specific launch date. Twitter Blue subscribers in these countries can … Read more

Automate your time series forecasting in Snowflake using Amazon Forecast

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This post is a joint collaboration with Andries Engelbrecht and James Sun of Snowflake, Inc. The cloud computing revolution has enabled businesses to capture and retain corporate and organizational data without capacity planning or data retention constraints. Now, with diverse and vast reserves of longitudinal data, companies are increasingly able to find novel and impactful … Read more

Achieve four times higher ML inference throughput at three times lower cost per inference with Amazon EC2 G5 instances for NLP and CV PyTorch models

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances are the first and only instances in the cloud to feature NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs, which you can use for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning (ML) use cases. With G5 instances, ML customers get high performance and a cost-efficient infrastructure to train and … Read more

Why aren’t we seeing more aggressive SaaS M&A?

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Heading into 2022, it seemed like we were poised for a big year in M&A. This was especially true for enterprise SaaS companies that saw their values begin to fall in late 2021, a trend that extended into this year. Why are we not seeing more aggressive M&A activity and some good old-fashioned bargain hunting … Read more

The Trevor Project cuts ties with student surveillance software after online backlash

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Gaggle monitors students’ work on school-owned accounts for potentially “harmful” keywords. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support to LGBTQ-plus youth, will cut ties with student-focused monitoring software company Gaggle after the partnership sparked backlash from activists. The organization began listing Gaggle as a … Read more