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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.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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 …
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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
AltStore, an alt iOS app store coming to EU thanks to DMA, plans to use a Patreon integration to let devs tie access to their apps to users' Patreon pledges  —  Apple's chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) …
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
AI search engine Perplexity, whose website said 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
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
Reuters:
Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out the gains from last week, after it disclosed a $58M+ loss on $4.1M in revenue in 2023  —  Shares of Donald Trump's social media company plunged 21% on Monday, wiping out the gains from its debut last week …
Lasso Security:
To highlight an attack vector, a researcher made a package with a name hallucinated by ChatGPT; it had 30K+ downloads in three months and appeared in many repos  —  I kicked start on this follow-up research for several reasons:  —  ‍  —  1️⃣ I investigate whether package …
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple researchers detail an AI system that can resolve references to elements displayed on a screen, in some cases better than GPT-4 can when given screenshots  —  Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can understand ambiguous references to on-screen entities …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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Bloomberg:
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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
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Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
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Max Tani / Semafor:
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