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Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, with an initial investment of $1.25B for a minority stake in the AI startup, and an option to increase the total to $4B — Amazon Web Services lures Claude chatbot maker, which was valued at nearly $5bn earlier this year
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out an update to let Plus and Enterprise users prompt ChatGPT using voice commands or by uploading an image, available for other users “soon after” — Most of OpenAI's changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, improved underlying models.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT on iOS and Android to let the bot speak in five different voices in a conversational tone, rolling out to Plus and Enterprise users — Plus, you can now upload photos, and the chatbot can interpret them — You'll have two reactions to hearing my conversation with the now-vocal ChatGPT:
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
Spotify partners with OpenAI to launch an AI-powered voice translation feature that reproduces podcasts in other languages using the podcaster's own voice — What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That's the premise behind Spotify's …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder rolls out Tinder Select, a $500/month tier with perks like a SELECT profile badge and the ability to DM others up to twice a week without matching first — Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
DeFi project Mixin Network suspends deposits and withdrawals after a hack involving $200M in crypto assets; SlowMist says Mixin's cloud provider was compromised — - Compromise in cloud service provider's database led to breach — Project expected to give details in a livestream later today
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| Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: |
iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more — Repairable design undermined by parts-pairing DRM — iPhone 15 is here, and it boasts a new charge port, titanium frame, a periscope, and a new pro-repair design.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Getty partners with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a tool trained on Getty's licensed photos that lets users create legally protected images — Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty's library of licensed photos.| Los Angeles Times: |
The WGA and the AMPTP reach a tentative deal to end the strike; the proposed three-year contract ups pay and streaming residuals, adds new AI rules, and more — The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal that would end a strike that has lasted …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Amazon shuts down its Alexa Guard security system and moves the free smoke and carbon monoxide detection features to its $5.99/month Emergency Assist service — Amazon has announced that it's shutting down Alexa Guard — a DIY security feature for Echo devices that listens for intruders or household alarms when you're away from home.| Lucia Maffei / Boston Business Journal: |
Boston-based Openly, which uses AI to generate home insurance quotes in 20+ US states, raised a $100M Series D led by Eden, bringing its total funding to $240M — A Boston-based insurtech company now active in over 20 U.S. states plans further expansion thanks to a $100 million funding round.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU blocks Booking Holdings' €1.63B Etraveli acquisition, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal expands its dominance in the hotel OTA market — Booking Holdings' (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked …
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