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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.
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Grant Jenks
| 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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| 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) …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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X: @florian4gamers, @tomchivers, @acjsissons, and @carnage4life
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| Bloomberg: |
Cloud data management startup Rubrik files for a NYSE IPO under the symbol RBRK, discloses a net loss of $354M on revenue of $628M for the year ended January 31 — - Data security provider says subscription ARR grew by 47% — Rubrik's filing follows trading debuts by Reddit, Astera Labs| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Telegram now lets Premium users turn their account into a business account, with options like a custom start page, greeting and away messages, and chatbots — Messaging app Telegram is preparing to take on Meta's WhatsApp and Messenger with a new set of features aimed at businesses as well as support for ad-revenue sharing.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
The US and UK sign an agreement on how to test and assess risks from emerging AI models, marking the first bilateral arrangement on AI safety in the world — Allies reach world's first bilateral deal as global governments seek to assess and regulate risks from emerging technology
More: U.S. Department of Commerce, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Maginative, Cryptopolitan, and TIME. X: @connoraxiotes
| 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
More: Decrypt, Search Engine Land, and The Verge
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| Bar Lanyado / 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 …
More: Pluralistic, SecurityWeek, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @lassosecurity, @blanyado, @doctorow, @doctorow, @doctorow, and @bruce_arthur. Forums: Hacker News
| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger raised ~$2.2B for its latest fund, well short of the $6B target and its smallest fundraising haul in about a decade, after raising a $12.7B fund — - Firm told investors in 2022 that it aimed to raise $6 billion — PIP 16 is dwarfed by previous fund, which raised $12.7 billion
More: The Information and Financial Times
X: @carnage4life, @trace_cohen, @eghosao, @bryce, and @jasonlk
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on the core business of email, acquiring Mailchimp in 2021, generative AI, shutting down TinyLetter, and more — Intuit purchased Mailchimp in 2021, and less than a year later, co-founder Ben Chestnut was out. Here's how new CEO Rania Succar is moving forward.
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