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Economic Times
17 hours ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Former Meta VP Karandeep Anand takes on CEO role at Character. ai
Live Events Google-backed AI chatbot service Character. ai has appointed Karandeep Anand as its next chief executive officer on to this, he was vice president and head of business products at Meta . He has also held executive roles at the new role, Anand will focus on advancing Character. ai's long term strategy to enhance multimodal-AI technology and expand the user has been a board advisor to Character. ai for the last nine months. In a note, he laid out plans for the company over the next 60 days. These plans include working on refining open source models in an attempt to improve memory and overall model quality. He also aims to improve search and discoverability features to help users navigate parallel, Anand hinted at expanding Character. ai's creative toolkit to help creators design richer, immersive characters, with audio and video give users better control, he said he is going to make the content filters less overbearing to ease out restrictions. Additionally, he aims to roll out 'Archive' option to allow users to hide or archive characters if they wish company also announced Dominic Perella as chief legal officer and senior vice president (SVP) of global ai uses deep learning models similar to GPT-type models, offering conversational AI characters while also allowing character creation. However, it does not support generating images or code, making it a solely text-based model.
Time of India
19 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Former Meta VP Karandeep Anand takes on CEO role at Character. ai
Google-backed AI chatbot service Character. ai has appointed Karandeep Anand as its next chief executive officer on Friday. Prior to this, he was vice president and head of business products at Meta . He has also held executive roles at Microsoft. In the new role, Anand will focus on advancing Character. ai's long term strategy to enhance multimodal-AI technology and expand the user base. Anand has been a board advisor to Character. ai for the last nine months. In a note, he laid out plans for the company over the next 60 days. These plans include working on refining open source models in an attempt to improve memory and overall model quality. He also aims to improve search and discoverability features to help users navigate better. In parallel, Anand hinted at expanding Character. ai's creative toolkit to help creators design richer, immersive characters, with audio and video capabilities. Live Events To give users better control, he said he is going to make the content filters less overbearing to ease out restrictions. Additionally, he aims to roll out 'Archive' option to allow users to hide or archive characters if they wish to. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The company also announced Dominic Perella as chief legal officer and senior vice president (SVP) of global affairs. Character. ai uses deep learning models similar to GPT-type models, offering conversational AI characters while also allowing character creation. However, it does not support generating images or code, making it a solely text-based model.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Internet outages show signs of recovery as Spotify, Google and other popular online services are down for thousands of users
Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The disruptions came as service provider Cloudflare and Google Cloud experienced service disruptions. A Cloudflare representative told CNN that a Google Cloud outage was behind the issue and that its core services were not impacted. 'This is a Google Cloud outage,' a Cloudflare representative said in an email to CNN. 'A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly.' The company also said on its system service dashboard that Cloudflare Workers KV, a data storage service, went offline 'due to an outage of a 3rd party service.' Google said it was 'investigating a service disruption' when asked for comment. 'We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,' a representative said. 'Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates.' Cloudflare said it was starting to see services recover in a note on its services status page on Thursday afternoon. A Spotify representative pointed CNN to Google's Cloud services dashboard when asked about technical issues impacting the streaming service. Issue reports on Downdetector for Discord and Google Cloud also began to drop around that time. At its peak, the disruptions impacted roughly 46,000 Spotify users, 11,000 Discord users and 14,000 Google Cloud users, according to Downdetector. Services such as Snapchat and the AI platform were also affected, according to the outage tracker website. Google Cloud plays a massive role in powering the web. In 2018, the company said it 'delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic.' It's one of the world's top cloud providers, although it's not as large as Amazon and Microsoft, according to Synergy Research Group. Google accounts for 12% of the global cloud services market, while Microsoft makes up 21% and Amazon accounts for 30%. It's also not the first time an outage like this has caused widespread interruptions in web service. An Amazon Web Services outage in 2021 disrupted everything from food orders to smart home devices, as CNBC reported at the time. A Cloudflare outage also took down a bunch of popular online services in 2020. Several other high-profile services have seen outages in recent weeks, including ChatGPT and social media platform X. This story has been updated with additional context and developments.
CNN
12-06-2025
- Business
- CNN
Internet outages show signs of recovery as Spotify, Google and other popular online services are down for thousands of users
Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The disruptions came as service provider Cloudfare and Google Cloud experienced service disruptions. A Cloudfare representative told CNN that a Google Cloud outage was behind the issue and that its core services were not impacted. 'This is a Google Cloud outage,' a Cloudfare representative said in an email to CNN. 'A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly.' Google said it was 'investigating a service disruption' when asked for comment. 'We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,' a representative said. 'Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates.' Cloudfare said it was starting to see services recover in a note on its services status page on Thursday afternoon. A Spotify representative pointed CNN to Google's Cloud services dashboard when asked about technical issues impacting the streaming service. Issue reports on Downdetector for Discord and Google Cloud also began to drop around that time. At its peak, the disruptions impacted roughly 46,000 Spotify users, 11,000 Discord users and 14,000 Google Cloud users, according to Downdetector. Services such as Snapchat and the AI platform were also affected, according to the outage tracker website. Google Cloud plays a massive role in powering the web. In 2018, the company said it 'delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic.' It's also not the first time an outage like this has caused widespread interruptions in web service. An Amazon Web Services outage in 2021 disrupted everything from food orders to smart home devices, as CNBC reported at the time. Several other high-profile services have seen outages in recent weeks, including ChatGPT and social media platform X. This story is developing. Please refresh for the latest.
CNN
12-06-2025
- Business
- CNN
Internet outages show signs of recovery as Spotify, Google and other popular online services are down for thousands of users
Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The disruptions came as service provider Cloudfare and Google Cloud experienced service disruptions. A Cloudfare representative told CNN that a Google Cloud outage was behind the issue and that its core services were not impacted. 'This is a Google Cloud outage,' a Cloudfare representative said in an email to CNN. 'A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly.' Google said it was 'investigating a service disruption' when asked for comment. 'We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,' a representative said. 'Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates.' Cloudfare said it was starting to see services recover in a note on its services status page on Thursday afternoon. A Spotify representative pointed CNN to Google's Cloud services dashboard when asked about technical issues impacting the streaming service. Issue reports on Downdetector for Discord and Google Cloud also began to drop around that time. At its peak, the disruptions impacted roughly 46,000 Spotify users, 11,000 Discord users and 14,000 Google Cloud users, according to Downdetector. Services such as Snapchat and the AI platform were also affected, according to the outage tracker website. Google Cloud plays a massive role in powering the web. In 2018, the company said it 'delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic.' It's also not the first time an outage like this has caused widespread interruptions in web service. An Amazon Web Services outage in 2021 disrupted everything from food orders to smart home devices, as CNBC reported at the time. Several other high-profile services have seen outages in recent weeks, including ChatGPT and social media platform X. This story is developing. Please refresh for the latest.
