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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 …
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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18; talks with Google to license Gemini are still ongoing — - Move is part of push to add AI features to Apple devices — Company also held talks with Google about using Gemini
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Email: criminals target WPP CEO Mark Read in a deepfake scam by using a voice clone and public YouTube footage to set up a video meeting with his executives — Mark Read says criminals set up Microsoft Teams call with senior executives in unsuccessful attack| Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: |
At the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd said the future of dating could have digital, AI-powered personas setting each other up — Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and executive chair of Bumble, said that the dating app wants to use AI to “create more healthy and equitable relationships.”
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Indian e-commerce startup Meesho, which has ~150M transacting users, raised $275M, sources say at a $3.9B valuation as part of an ongoing $500M+ round — Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with about 150 million transacting users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round …
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| 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| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
Christie's experienced a “technology security issue” that took its website down and affected some systems, ahead of auctions that are expected to generate $840M — The auctioneer's website was taken offline on Thursday evening and remained down on Friday, days before its spring auctions were set to begin.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Anthropic's Claude now ranks #51 in the top free iPhone Productivity apps in the US, down from rank #5 in this category, which it achieved on May 4 — Consumer demand for mobile AI chatbot apps outside of ChatGPT may be waning. Earlier this month, Anthropic launched …
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| Julie Weed / New York Times: |
How United, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, and others use AI to reduce costs and streamline operations, including holding flights for delayed passengers — Airlines are using artificial intelligence to save fuel, keep customers informed and hold connecting flights for delayed passengers.
More: Politico and Blockworks
| Financial Times: |
Meituan, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies are working to expand in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where they would face less political scrutiny — Companies would face less political scrutiny in a region where ties are mainly centred around economic interests
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