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OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper — App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh — Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more — Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399 — Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs. This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will debut next week …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p — Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
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| New York Times: |
In a letter to Satya Nadella, Twitter accuses Microsoft of violating an agreement over the use of the social network's data and declining to pay for that usage — In a letter to Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions — The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access … | SemiAnalysis: |
A look at AmpereOne, Ampere's new third-generation data center CPU, the company's first to use an in-house architecture, and its disingenuous performance claims — Chiplets, Advanced Packaging, and Disingenuous Performance Claims — Ampere Computing specializes in CPUs for the cloud datacenter market.
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| New York Times: |
Meta's unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals' approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI — The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
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| New York Times: |
A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more — A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
A look at Sightful's Spacetop, an Android laptop with an AR headset for a 100" virtual display in lieu of a screen, available to 1,000 early adopters for $2,000 — Sightful's Spacetop AR laptop is brought to you by the chief executive behind the Microsoft Kinect. — Laptops have a problem: their screen.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs — At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
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@boztank, @boztank, @ylecun, @aphysicist, @alexbarinka, @josephjacks_, @tiernanraytech, @ylecun, @sarahfrier, and @itsclivetime
| Huw Jones / Reuters: |
A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends that the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling and not a financial service — Bitcoin , ether and other cryptocurrencies should be regulated as gambling given the significant risks they pose to consumers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024 — Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …
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| Emmy Lucas / Forbes: |
Instawork, a marketplace matching hourly workers with employers, raised a $60M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $760M, bringing its total funding to $160M — While some are predicting people will lose jobs due to artificial intelligence, Instawork cofounder and CEO Sumir Meghani wants … | Mark Harris / TechCrunch: |
An investigation finds ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the company was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below his claims of $50M and $100M — Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI's early finances — It's no secret that Elon Musk … | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Amazon has made just 100 Prime Air drone deliveries so far, after projecting 10K US deliveries for 2023; Wing has made 330K deliveries and Zipline has made 600K — WATCH NOW — Amazon drones make 100th delivery, lagging far behind Alphabet's Wing and Walmart partner ZiplineSponsor Posts
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