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OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo “some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates”, which Sam Altman says are “not gpt-5, not a search engine” — Following a report that the company plans to launch a Google Search competitor next week …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products — In the race to develop artificial intelligence that communicates the way humans do, OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate technology … | New York Times: |
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated — Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company's most significant reorganization in a decade.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component — Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.| CNBC: |
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful — Tesla CEO Elon Musk — A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data …
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| Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute: |
Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices — As the country votes in this year's crucial election, news channels are being banned or demonetised in a move criticised by press freedom groups
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| Raymond Wong / Inverse: |
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google's director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel's camera bar design, more — Lais Borges/Inverse; Photograph by Raymond Wong — Not too long ago, smartphones had more personality.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly — Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Filings and sources: autonomous vehicle company Motional cut ~550 employees in a restructuring that included delaying a robotaxi service from 2024 to 2026 — Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company.
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| Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law: |
A US jury says Microsoft must pay IPA Technologies $242M after finding that Cortana infringed a patent that expired in Jan. 2019; Microsoft plans to appeal — Microsoft Corp. must pay IPA Technologies Inc. $242 million after a federal jury in Delaware found its Cortana digital assistant infringed a patent that expired in January 2019.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week — CoreWeave isn't hanging around. Hot on the heels of a mega funding round valuing the GPU cloud company at a reported $19 billion … | Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: |
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform in May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds — The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
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