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A US appeals court affirms a lower court's 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple's App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store's policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud — Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …
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Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack
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Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews in the US App Store as users pan My AI, its GPT-powered chatbot feature that launched to all users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat's “My AI” feature are in — and they're not good. Launched last week to global users after initially …
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Sources: Twitter signed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd's murder; Twitter stopped paying and is trying to sell the stakes — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — With Twitter expected to default on millions still due …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns, or one-third, haven't raised since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft's GPT-4-based Security Copilot — Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench …
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| Martine Paris / Forbes: |
Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music using her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same deal as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd …
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| John Kruzel / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases about government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Donald Trump Twitter case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
BeReal claims 20M+ DAUs and is testing letting users post three snapshots per day; Apptopia: BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022 — BeReal, Apple's iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it's still going strong.
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Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M — The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.Sponsor Posts
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