OpenAI makes ChatGPT for macOS available to all users after first rolling it out to Plus subscribers; the app can be launched from anywhere using Option + Space
Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers.
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 10 at 9AM ET in Paris, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6 are expected
Samsung's next Unpacked summer launch event will take place on July 10th in Paris, France, the company announced on Tuesday.
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 European countries, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada in 2025
Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
OpenAI delays the release of its advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT by a month to address safety issues and plans to roll out the feature to Plus users in the fall
no word from Scarlett Johansson yet Livemint : ChatGPT Voice Mode release pushed to July: Here's why Jay Bonggolto / Android Police : OpenAI pushes back ChatGPT's new ‘Voice Mode’ launch by a month Ca...
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
Google drops continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and that pagination enables serving results faster
Google Search will stop its continuous scroll user experience where Google loads more results as you scroll past the first page of the search results.
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024
Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies
Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024
Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain — The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect …
Sensor Tower: Nexon's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M on iOS in China in the 30 days after its May 21 launch, marking Tencent's biggest release in 2024
- ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ is off to a hot start in China — The Nexon-produced game is Tencent's biggest release this year
A look at Tencent removing hit game Dungeon & Fighter Mobile from Android app stores in China, some of which have a default sales split of 50% on games revenue
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Sources: YouTube is in talks with Sony, Warner, and Universal to license their songs for AI music generation tools coming in 2024 that mimic artists' music
Licensing negotiations come as industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open
After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
Some iPhone users running the latest iOS 18 beta report being able to send and receive RCS messages on select US carriers
here's what you need to know Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta Abdullah / Gizchina : RCS Compatibility Between iOS and Android Is Finally Here! iClarif...
Boston-based Creatio, which offers a no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, raised $200M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1.2B valuation
Creatio, the no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, on Wednesday announced that it has raised a $200 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
Reddit says it will update its robots.txt to make “as clear as possible” that companies “using an automated agent to access Reddit” need to abide by its terms
The warning comes after reports that AI companies regularly ignore instructions not to scrape.
Atos says a consortium led by its largest shareholder, Onepoint, has withdrawn from bailout talks and that EPEI has expressed interest in restarting discussions
- Billionaire Kretinsky's EPEI is interested in restarting talks — Atos still aims for a refinancing deal with creditors in July
How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data
Last July, Google made an eight-word change to its privacy policy that represented a significant step in its race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year
A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces … Mastodon: @jik@federate.social . X: @evan_greer , @josephfcox , @samleecole , ...
Animoca Brands, which was valued at $6B in 2022, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong or the Middle East in 2025, four years after it was delisted in Australia
Animoca Brands, a crypto gaming and metaverse conglomerate valued at $6 billion in 2022, is considering a public listing in Hong Kong …
Waymo drops its waitlist in San Francisco, letting anyone download its app and hail a robotaxi; in Phoenix, Waymo has been open to the public since October 2020
Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date
Getting full value out of AI workplace assistants is turning out to require a heavy lift from enterprises.
Google will hold a Pixel event on August 13 at 10AM PT in Mountain View, where the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 3 are expected
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart quietly rolls out a payments app, Super.money, after separating from PhonePe, India's largest payments app, in December 2022
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has quietly started rolling out its own payments app, dubbed Super.money, as it broadens …
Formation Bio, which uses AI to co-develop drugs with biotech and pharma companies, raised a $372M Series D led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $600M+
Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised …
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing”
OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems …
Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were
Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project has a 200K-token context window
I'm really excited about this latest feature. … Forums: Hacker News : Anthropic Introduces Claude Projects r/OpenAI : Anthropic just gave Claude their equivalent of GPTs (Projects), for Pro users. No...
India sold 141MHz of spectrum for ~$1.3B in an auction, down from ~$19B in 2022, as the country's three remaining private operators rein in capital spending
- Bharti Airtel bought 97 MHz of airwaves for $820 million — Analysts had forecast that demand for spectrum may be limited
Kaiko: spot bitcoin ETFs' launch in the US helped Bybit double its market share to 16% in March, crossing Coinbase to become the world's second-largest exchange
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Cruise names Marc Whitten, a former Amazon and Microsoft executive, as its new CEO
Fetcherr, which wants to let airlines provide dynamic pricing by using AI to forecast demand, raised a $90M Series B, bringing its total funding to $114.5M
The airline industry is headed for record revenue this year — $996 billion — as the demand for travel soars. But the margins remain razor-thin.
Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work
This by the former research director of the #Stanford Internet Observatory. It was one of the leading #US institutions studying #online disinformation, but it's been shut down recently due to lawsuit...
In a rare admission of ad fraud, Yahoo Japan plans to waive $189M in charges, or ~1.6% of parent company LY's FY 2023 revenue, after detecting fraudulent clicks
Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, and other consultants see rising demand for AI advisory services; BCG earns 20% of its revenue from AI-related work, vs. 0% two years ago
Rattled by tech's latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence. Mastodon: @waldoj@mastodon...
Stability AI says it closed a new funding round; sources: investors committed $80M to take over the company, and some suppliers have forgiven debt obligations
Atlanta-based Rainforest, which helps software companies “build and optimize” embedded financial services, raised a $20M Series A, taking its funding to $31.75M
Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding …
Vienna-based Prewave, which helps companies monitor their supply chain risks, raised a €63M Series B led by Hedosophia, bringing its total funding to €90M+
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
As growth slows, Chinese tech companies are squeezing more hours out of fewer staff, as some in the industry view PDD's grueling hours as a model to emulate
working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week — is returning to gruelling hours as growth slows and share prices suffer https://www.ft.com/... [image] LinkedIn: Katerina Guseva : China's concept of working...
Data tools provider CData raised nearly $350M led by Warburg Pincus, a source says at an $800M+ valuation, and says it expects ~$100M in ARR by the end of 2024
Sources: India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs investigation finds Byju's did not commit financial fraud but had compliance lapses that led to mounting losses
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Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to US manufacturers, raised $27.4M, bringing its total Series A funding to $52M+
Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report :
Sensi, which uses AI to analyze audio and let home care agencies virtually monitor seniors, raised a $31M Series B, bringing its total funding to $53M
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, a special envoy to startup accelerator Techleap, says Europe risks falling behind the US and China by over-regulating AI
Ryan Browne / CNBC : X: @ryan_browne_ . LinkedIn: Adi Saric X: Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : I spoke with Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, envoy to Dutch accelerator techleap, earlier this mont...
NYC-based Norm Ai, which uses AI to help organizations automate compliance tasks, raised a $27M Series A led by Coatue, bringing its total funding to $38M+
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Advantest CEO Douglas Lefever, whose company has a 54% share of the chip testing equipment market, says China will remain an important market despite US curbs
Bloomberg :
Adonis, which provides healthcare revenue cycle automation services, raised a $31M Series B led by Point72 Private Investments, taking its total funding to $54M
Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews :
Sources: Huawei is struggling to ramp up production of its Ascend AI server chip, China's leading alternative to Nvidia's A100, due to a new US crackdown
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Route: TikTok Shop saw a 13% jump in orders from April to May, as TikTok appears to be hiring hundreds of employees in the US to support its e-commerce efforts
Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes :
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