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Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform


The new name unifies what was previously fragmented across Freepik (stock assets), Magnific (AI upscaling), and several other products. One million paying subscribers. 250 enterprise customers, including BBC, Puma, and Amazon Prime Video. CEO Joaquín Cuenca has never taken outside investment. The company is profitable. Freepik, the Málaga-founded AI creative platform, announced on Tuesday that […]



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Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance  —  Chinese tech giant Tencent's latest AI model has generated positive reviews from developers.  But the company probably owes some of that success to Anthropic.

Apple TV's Widow's Bay is Stephen King with a side of Jaws

The star and showrunner of Widow's Bay unpack their influences in an interview with Polygon

Farmer Buys Guardian Dog To Protect Livestock From RFK Jr.

ROLAND, AR—Expressing frustration that the rabid Cabinet member had completely decimated the cattle inventory, local farmer Lindon Trelby told reporters he purchased a guard dog Tuesday to protect his livestock from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I first knew something was getting into the pens when I found a tattered, bloody […]

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Behold the crown jewel of outrageous gaming laptops

The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo was my pick for the best laptop of CES: It had two high-end screens, great specs, and the promise of being a one-of-a-kind multitasking and gaming monster. Now that this over-the-top laptop is here, I can tell you it's as fantastic as I had hoped for. It's also as expensive […]