LayerZero Labs launches Zero, a Layer 1 blockchain backed by Citadel Securities and Ark Invest, and partners with DTCC and Google Cloud to drive adoption
Belkin says it is ending support for its Wemo smart home products and app on January 31, 2026; four devices will continue to function via HomeKit over Thread
If your home has any of Belkin's Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.
Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B
Company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in funding set to close next week — Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected …
Sources: OpenAI expects its revenue to grow to $11.6B in 2025; ChatGPT has 10M paying users and could bring in $2.7B in revenue in 2024, up from $700M in 2023
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month
the path to scale will still be tough Brad Linder / Liliputing : Lilbits: Amazon's AI-powered subscription voice assistant could launch in October Omar Gallaga / CNET : Amazon's Al...
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month
Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, visi...
Sources: OpenAI has received only a fraction of Microsoft's $10B investment, a big portion of which is in cloud purchases, giving Microsoft significant leverage
Only a fraction of Microsoft's $10 billion investment in OpenAI has been wired to the startup, while a significant portion of the funding …
Sources: Apple built Ajax, a framework for building LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and is planning an AI announcement in 2024
- Company builds large language models and internal chatbot — Executives haven't decided how to release tools to consumers
Jio Platforms unveils a ~$12 4G phone in India with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming services, and a $1.5/month 14GB data plan
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads …
Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues ...
Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter's success that he hasn't defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover
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Google plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator “down the line”, after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted
On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account.
Cyber risk quantification startup Safe Security raised a $50M Series B led by Sorenson Capital
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Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV shows and charge for content; an IPL cricket match on April 12 drew 22M viewers on JioCinema
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Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons
- Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology …