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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
More: 9to5Google

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
The NFL knows it provides must-see TV, earning $75M/game from Netflix and showing games across Amazon, YouTube, Disney, Comcast, Fox, and Paramount

CNN:
Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, dies at 58

Sky News:
UK High Court rules that Julian Assange can appeal against his extradition to the US because judges deemed US assurances insufficient

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “Show more like this” and “Show less like this” post menu options
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
India approves the first offshore crypto companies, Binance and KuCoin, after banning them in December 2023 for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine
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%
Politico:
Sources: tech lobbying group NetChoice kicked TikTok off of its membership rolls after facing pressure from the office of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise

Earlier Picks

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
Financial Times:
TikTok plans to start automatically labeling some AI content, including from DALL-E and Adobe's Firefly, and joins the Adobe-led content credentials coalition
Wall Street Journal:
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out
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