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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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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.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers — The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft's own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Spotify's head of podcast studios, Julie McNamara, is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify's reduced ambitions in podcasts — - Executive internally announced her departure on Thursday — Exit follows layoffs, show cancellations and reorganizations| Counterpoint Research: |
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% YoY in Q1 2024; Vivo led for the first time with 19.2% market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung with 17.5% — - For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter. — Samsung led the market by value after capturing …
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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 … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Employees say Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has lost at least 12 of its major clients and product innovation has taken a backseat to upgrading legacy systems — Larry Ellison promised to modernize antiquated health-care technology. The reality has been more daunting.| Financial Times: |
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