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OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner — Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform's content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
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Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for GTA VI, reports Q4 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.35B, and lowers its FY 2025 bookings forecast from $7B+ to $5.55B+ — - Game maker lowers forecast for 2025 bookings as a result — The 2013 version of game has sold over 200 million copies
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users — The news from OpenAI this week continues: today, the company announced it has updated its signature large language model (LLM) chatbot ChatGPT …
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DOJ charges five people for allegedly duping 300+ US companies into hiring North Korea-linked remote IT workers and helping fund the country's nuclear program — Justice Department alleges Arizona woman and others helped foreign workers with North Korean connections get freelance gigs at U.S. companies| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony's content in training AI — Music group representing Adele and Beyoncé contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content
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Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users — Meta is starting to test a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads today. It will allow Threads users to create customizable feeds that are stacked …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube — TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 60-minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple previews Vehicle Motion Cues, which adds animated dots to iPhone and iPad screens to reduce motion sickness for passengers using them in moving vehicles — Apple today announced new accessibility features coming to its devices later this year, and one feature in particular that is likely …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales — Replit, a San Francisco-based startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered coding assistant, has laid off 30 employees …
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| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Prosus and parent group Naspers appoint Fabricio Bloisi as new CEO, replacing interim CEO Ervin Tu; Bloisi, who was the CEO of iFood, will start on July 1 — - Ervin Tu will become the group's chief investment officer — Bloisi joins the tecnology-investment firm from iFood
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Server CPU designer Ampere announces that its AmpereOne chip family will grow to 256 cores by next year; Ampere will work with Qualcomm on cloud AI accelerators — Server CPU designer Ampere Computing announced its AmpereOne chip family will grow to 256 cores by next year.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Ann Arbor-based Voxel51, which is developing a visual AI platform to reduce the failure rate of AI projects, raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer — Voxel51 has raised $30 million in new funding to develop its visual AI platform, which is designed to reduce the failure rate of AI projects.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Fay, which connects registered dietitians with insurance providers and patients, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding from General Catalyst and Forerunner — For years, Sammy Faycurry has been hearing from his dietician mom and sister about how poorly many Americans eat and their struggles with delivering nutritional counseling.
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| Matthew Hutson / Wired: |
A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Analyst briefing: Microsoft will launch its Cobalt 100 chips, announced in November 2023, to Azure clients as a public preview at its Build conference next week — Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google updates its accessibility apps: Lookout, to use a phone to recognize objects, a text-free mode in Look To Speak, and adds Maps wheelchair data on desktop — It's also making wheelchair information on Google Maps available on desktop. — Google has updated some of its accessibility apps …
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