Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025
Here's How to Check Yours Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal : Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service Shira Ovide / NZ Herald : Google plans to delete millions of “goo.gl” short links,...
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
here's the key upgrades Adam Davidson / Pocket-lint : Siri is outdated, but a better version might be coming The Economic Times : iOS 18: Your iPhone may soon have ChatGPT Griffin Eckstein / Salon : A...
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters
What To Know About ‘Llama 3’ Model Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Memeburn : Meta AI with built in Llama 3 is on WhatsApp in South Africa Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta releases Llama 3, new AI assista...
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 ...
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response”
and it's likely a good thing. Here's why Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Microsoft is ‘Exploring’ Ads within Bing Chat Mashable : Oh great, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot is getting more ads Barry ...
Experts say AI could help improve relatively simple and targeted tech in mental health care, including telemedicine, telephone hotlines, and clinician training
Shira Ovide / Washington Post :
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, to select customers in the US
The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format — Why Amazon Sometimes Unveils Products You Can't Actually Buy Tweets: @frankcatalano , @sebas...
Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $2.96B loss in Q1 2022, up from a $1.8B loss in Q4 2021, on revenue of $695M, and says Reality Labs has ~17,000 employees
in the 2030s David Heaney / UploadVR : Zuckerberg Sees Project Cambria ‘Eventually Replacing Your Laptop’ Kali Hays / Insider : Mark Zuckerberg tries to reassure investors that Facebook's metaverse is...
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays
here's what you get Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Studio Display Supports 5th-Gen iPad Air, But Not the 4th-Gen or the iPad Mini 6 Jonny Evans / Apple Must : M1 Ultra benchmarks ship as analysts praise A...
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS
Whatever you send or receive, end-to-end encryption protects your messages from being this exposed. Doroteya Borisova / PhoneArena : WhatsApp CEO hints at iPad app release Juli Clover / MacRumors : Wh...