Apple releases iOS 17.4 with a new default browser prompt in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more
Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories.
OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing when the company “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him”
Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman …
Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long”
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images …
OpenAI says that while discussing a for-profit structure, Elon Musk “wanted us to merge with Tesla” or “majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO”
In a blog post published on Tuesday, OpenAI said it will move to dismiss “all of Elon's claims” …
After the EU's ruling, Spotify submits an app update to Apple to provide pricing info within its iOS app in the EU and link users to its subscription options
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Microsoft engineer Shane Jones warns the FTC and Microsoft's board that Copilot Designer generates violent and sexual images, violates copyright laws, and more
- Shane Jones, who's worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company's AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.
Sources, court filings, and internal documents detail how Sam Altman and Elon Musk's partnership that launched the AI boom soured, culminating in Musk's lawsuit
His wives — His girlfriends — His employess — His business partners — In Musk's case, even his children(!) hate him. … X: Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : “I miss the old Elon.” Our @wsj exami...
More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products
Tech company policies have put a chill on independent AI research, says open letter — More than 100 top artificial intelligence …
Under regulatory pressure around vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google in dropping egress fees for moving data out of its cloud; Microsoft Azure's fees remain
Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached.
Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results
Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results …
Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account, hampering its app store plans, and shares a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic “verifiably untrustworthy”
After Epic CEO Tim Sweeney criticized how Apple is rolling out alternative app stores on iOS in the EU …
CCDH: Midjourney, DreamStudio, ChatGPT Plus, and Microsoft Image Creator created election disinformation in 41% of tests; Midjourney was most likely to do so
New York CNN — — Leading artificial intelligence image generators can be manipulated into creating misleading election-related images …
Email: Spanish data protection regulator AEPD demands Worldcoin cease collecting personal data in the country and gives the company 72 hours to prove compliance
Spain has moved to block Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy …
TikTok moves its Creativity Program, now rebranded as the Creator Rewards Program, out of beta, and requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized
A year ago, TikTok introduced a new way for creators on the platform to make money: make longer videos.
Meta confirms a technical issue caused an outage affecting Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest logins, and more, for over two hours
Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY to 13M
Google Pixel is coming off of its best-selling year to date, but according to one report, Google shipped fewer Tensor chips in Q4 2023.
Industrial cybersecurity startup Claroty raised $100M in a “pre-IPO round” at an estimated $2.5B valuation and reports $100M ARR, after raising $400M in 2021
Claroty provides infrastructure cybersecurity and secures connected devices in all Pfizer, BMW, Siemens and Schneider plants.
Microsoft plans to end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, end support for the Amazon Appstore on Windows too
no one will miss it Jason Bouwmeester / Techaeris : RIP Windows Subsystem for Android Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide : Windows 11 will stop supporting Android apps in 2025 - here's why Arif Bacchus / MSP...
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers
Machines can now talk with us in ways that aren't preprogrammed. They can draw pictures, write passable (if generic) … X: @cityjournal , @cityjournal , @jacobjaber , @sapinker , and @bgurley X: @city...
NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google Pay rose almost 6%
- Paytm loses usage even before any disruption to its systems — Services of Walmart, Google capitalize on Paytm's troubles
NIST staff, US officials, congressional aides, and tech executives detail a massive resources gap between NIST, tasked with keeping AI safe, and tech companies
Funding challenges at the National Institute of Standards and Technology could jeopardize the Biden administration AI work X: @fbajak , @vivekchil , @tonyromm , @correadan , @willoremus , @kylebrussel...
A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers' Association's copyright lawsuit against X but dismissed its claim that X engaged in direct infringement
The music labels suing Twitter — now X — for copyright infringement can move forward with parts of their lawsuit.
Sources: a16z expects to raise $6.5B to $7B for a master feeder fund by early April; 50% would go to its fourth growth fund and 10% to its second gaming fund
- Half would go to the firm's fourth growth fund, which would represent a significant size decline from its $5 billion predecessor. Threads: @crumbler . X: @alex Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : In...
Sources: Microsoft plans a March 21 announcement of a Surface Laptop 6 and OLED Surface Pro 10, both offered with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips
A Montenegro appeals court cancels the approval of Do Kwon's extradition to the US, the third time the Terraform Labs co-founder has successfully appealed
For Now Sander Lutz / Decrypt : LUNA Pumps 77% as Do Kwon Evades Extradition—But the Gains Are Fading Brenda Ngari / ZyCrypto : Terra Creator Do Kwon Avoids Extradition To United States — Again Casey ...
After the Change Healthcare attack, the US will relax some Medicare prescription rules and consider advance payments; some providers begin furloughing staff
Waymo begins testing its driverless ride-hailing service without a safety operator in Austin on March 6, initially offering the service to Waymo employees
Kara Carlson / Austin American-Statesman :
Meta details WhatsApp and Messenger interoperability under the EU's DMA, saying third-parties must use Signal's protocol, which Meta already uses for encryption
Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger …
A BlackCat ransomware gang website shows a takedown notice; the UK NCA denies involvement and experts suggest an exit scam after an alleged UnitedHealth payment
but is this really the end? Wall Street Journal : After the Change Healthcare attack, the US will relax some Medicare prescription rules and consider advance payments; some providers begin furloughing...
Patronus AI releases CopyrightCatcher and says that GPT-4 produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts, Mixtral on 22%, Llama 2 on 10%, and Claude 2.1 on 8%
- Patronus AI, an AI model evaluation company founded by ex-Meta researchers, on Wednesday released research showcasing …
An in-depth look at Nvidia's DGX H100 setup: 32 DGX boxes, each weighing ~300lbs and housing eight individual $25K H100 GPUs, a cooling system, and other chips
Built to drive the graphics of videogames including ‘Call of Duty, ’ they now also power ChatGPT and other AI tools
AI chip startup Taalas emerges from stealth, raised $50M across two rounds led by Pierre Lamond and Quiet Capital, and plans to unveil its LLM chip in Q3 2024
Launched by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic — AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth to announce that it has raised $50 million over two funding rounds.
JD reports Q4 revenue up 3.6% YoY to ~$42.6B, beating ~$41.7B est., after offering discounts and launches a $3B three-year stock buyback program; JD jumps 8%
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg :
Salesforce releases Einstein 1 Studio, letting developers customize its Salesforce Einstein Copilot assistant, released in beta last week, at TrailblazerDX
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat :
Sources: the Dutch government creates a task force to address ASML's concerns around skilled workers, regulations, and electricity, to keep ASML in the country
Bloomberg :
Japan urges LY Corporation, the operator of Line and Yahoo Japan, to bolster security measures and review its relationship with Naver after user data leaks
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia :
Boston-based Overjet, which offers AI software that helps diagnose dental disease from scans, raised a $53.2M Series C led by March Capital at a $550M valuation
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
A deep dive into PDD's finances and operations, which are shrouded in secrecy and raise questions about US investors' confidence in Temu's parent company
Financial Times :
New York-based RapidSOS, which develops systems to help emergency response teams, raised $75M led by BlackRock, bringing its latest round to a total of $150M
Sources: the US presses the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, Japan, and other allies to tighten China chip rules more, a controversial move drawing resistance
Bloomberg :
Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant currently in beta, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations
but it isn't great, either Ina Fried / Axios : Prompt: Hands-on with Amazon's Rufus AI assistant Threads: Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : I am not surprised but just consistently impressed with how smart ...
Accenture plans to acquire online learning startup Udacity and announces LearnVantage, a learning suite the company pledges to expand with $1B over three years
Diane Brady / Fortune :
IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta's share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022
Presentation: OpenView plans to return ~75% of a $571M fund, raised in 2023, to its LPs by Q3 and use the remaining capital to back ~30 portfolio companies
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information :
Ema, a generative AI startup aiming to build a “universal AI employee” to automate mundane tasks, emerges from stealth and raised $25M from Accel and others
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks
Wall Street Journal :
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