OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit; RDDT is up 12%+
Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform's content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a higher energy density battery and a stainless steel battery case that helps Apple comply with EU rules about replaceability
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status
The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter …
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users
The news from OpenAI this week continues: today, the company announced it has updated its signature large language model (LLM) chatbot ChatGPT …
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy
Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for GTA VI, reports Q4 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.35B, and lowers its FY 2025 bookings forecast from $7B+ to $5.55B+
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Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China's currency beyond the mainland
- The launch is the first to take place beyond mainland China — China is pushing to grow the yuan's share of global payments
A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts
Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony's content in training AI
first make sure it doesn't sound like any Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : The same Sony that shipped CDs that installed rootkits on customer computers to combat piracy? Maybe sit this one out. Julian Harri...
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools
The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc's online governance regime …
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round
- Software company's venture arm has invested in the AI startup — Reka was started in 2022 by researchers from Google, Meta
Prosus and parent group Naspers appoint Fabricio Bloisi as new CEO, replacing interim CEO Ervin Tu; Bloisi, who was the CEO of iFood, will start on July 1
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg :
Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI will avoid a UK antitrust probe after the CMA finds Microsoft can't “materially influence” Mistral's commercial policy
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg :
DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program
the US is offering $5M for details Mastodon: Dustin Volz / @dustinvolz@journa.host : Wild story. An Arizona woman arrested yesterday is accused of helping North Korea fund its nuclear weapons program...
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country's 5G core network by 2026 over national security reasons
- Plan bans Chinese critical components in core network by 2026 — Interior, foreign and economy ministries back the proposal
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023
Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an artificial-intelligence cloud-computing startup backed by Nvidia …
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default
if you don't want your data to be used for training, then take sovereignty of it @slackhq : @QuinnyPig Hello from Slack! To clarify, Slack has platform-level machine-learning models for things like ch...
Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users
Youth advocacy group Encode Justice unveils 22 policy recommendations to ensure AI protects the “lives, rights, and livelihoods” of young people by 2030
from AI advancement. Thrilled to see the leadership from Encode Justice for a policy platform authored by 19-22-year-olds! That's why I signed AI 2030, the world's first youth-authored AI platform. ht...
Ubisoft falls ~15% after warning that Q1 net bookings will be ~€275M, below €376M est., and reporting a €401M adjusted operating income in FY 2024
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg :
Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Sources: Tesla plans a China data center to train its global self-driving system with Chinese FSD data, after previously seeking to move the data out of China
Fanny Potkin / Reuters :
Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner
and tremendous early momentum and resonance with its audiences. … Jack Michaud : Today was one of those days where I felt imbalanced. I had a list of self-care tasks that felt like a mountain —grocer...
Disney, Fox, and WBD unveil the name of their sports streaming venture: Venu Sports, which is set to debut in fall 2024
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information :
Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop
How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023
Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18
Sigma Computing, which offers cloud data analytics tools, raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up 60% from 2021, bringing its total funding to $581M
Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal
Server CPU designer Ampere announces that its AmpereOne chip family will grow to 256 cores by next year; Ampere will work with Qualcomm on cloud AI accelerators
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