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Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 globally amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in the EU in August 2023 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M+ on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B+ after going public on March 26 — - All of the company's revenue comes from advertising on Truth Social, per the disclosures.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years — Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
AI search engine Perplexity, whose website says that search should be “free from the influence of advertising-driven models”, says the startup plans to sell ads — The AI search engine must prove ad scalability and address brand safety concerns| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected — Individual lawsuits targeting firm now seek compensation for alleged improper data tracking — Google plans to destroy a trove …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M+ gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge — - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, including from OpenAI partner Microsoft, but now lists the fund's gross asset value at over $325 million.
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| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to get on its “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 carousel podcasts last week were participants — The Scoop — To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, one of the best placements in the audio world …
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| Brett Martin / New York Times: |
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under ~80 pseudonyms on music streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query — Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI no longer requires an account to use ChatGPT, but with “slightly more restrictive content policies”, starting in a few markets and rolling out globally — OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven't bothered making an account.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance execs — - Board includes three independent members, four insiders — The firm still has not announced its global headquarters| Mike Larkin / Security Boulevard: |
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections — Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/ProgrammerHumor
| Wall Street Journal: |
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