Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13, a day before the start of Google's annual I/O developer conference
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers
The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft's own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component
Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform in May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds
The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
Memo: Spotify's head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify's reduced ambitions in podcasts
- Executive internally announced her departure on Thursday — Exit follows layoffs, show cancellations and reorganizations
Apple apologizes for its “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plan to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”
The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “show more like this” and “show less like this” buttons
Bluesky is now allowing users to personalize their main Discover feeds. The social network is rolling out an updated version …
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% YoY in Q1 2024; Vivo led for the first time with 19.2% market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung with 17.5%
- For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter. — Samsung led the market by value after capturing …
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google
Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow the EU and US in trying to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google — Japan, South Korea and Australia are tightening rules …
Filings: SoftBank's Vision Fund's US portfolio has shrunk by almost $29B since the end of 2021 as, sources say, Masayoshi Son plans forays into AI and chips
Masayoshi Son turns away from aggressive style of venture capital investing, leaving the fund's reduced staff as mostly caretakers.
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India's approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk :
Sources: tech lobbying group NetChoice kicked TikTok off of its membership rolls after facing pressure from the office of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise
Employees say Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has lost at least 12 of its major clients and product innovation has taken a backseat to upgrading legacy systems
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
The Pentagon says it worked with Ukraine and SpaceX to successfully block Russian military use of Starlink; some Russian users complain of connectivity issues
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg :
South Korea-based DEEPX, which is building on-device AI chips, raised an ~$80M Series C led by SkyLake at a ~$529M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$95M
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023
We closed the first quarter with results in line with expectations.
ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, previews an AI model that can generate lyrics and samples of songs from text prompts
and you have to hear these clips to appreciate it Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : ElevenLabs unveils new AI music generator ‘ElevenLabs Music’ Daniel Croft / Cyber Daily : OpenAI developing AI-ge...
Baidu's PR chief Qu Jing reportedly left the company after criticism over her Douyin videos demanding that workers must be available 24 hours a day
Nectar Gan / CNN :
Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025
The Information : LinkedIn: Theo Wayt LinkedIn: Theo Wayt : Scoop 🥑 💸 🛵 : Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing after Getir just pulled out of the US. …
OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on “display success”
Mark Stenberg / Adweek : Bluesky: @justinling.bsky.social . X: @markstenberg3 and @pkafka . LinkedIn: Mark Stenberg Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Justin Ling / @ju...
Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses of US Cellular for $2B+; Verizon is also in talks with US Cellular
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs
what you need to know Stevie Bonifield / Laptop Mag : Apple's AI features won't run entirely on your device — what it means for your privacy Oliver Haslam / iMore : The Apple silicon end-game comes in...
TikTok plans to start automatically labeling some AI content, including from DALL-E and Adobe's Firefly, and joins the Adobe-led content credentials coalition
Financial Times :
US smartphone shipments fell 8% YoY in Q1 2024, the sixth consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung's market share grew to 31%; Apple's share remained flat at 52%
An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Google got Gemini image generation wrong, the future of search, layoffs, and more
https://www.youtube.com/... X: @cloud_opinion : If I were a betting man, I would bet that the eventual winner in the AI space is going to be Google. They are the only ones playing the long game, rest ...
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out
but there was a workaround Andy Edser / PC Gamer : ‘A number of threads retracted from the brain’ of Neuralink's first implant patient, but they say they're still 'beating my friends in games that as ...