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Sources: Apple isn't paying OpenAI as part of their partnership and aims to eventually make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing deals with chatbot owners — - The iPhone maker isn't paying OpenAI to use the chatbot — Apple announced OpenAI agreement as part of AI push this week
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $3.4B, up from $1B in summer 2023 and $1.6B in late 2023, with $3.2B from subscriptions to its chatbots and API fees — OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI expands its global affairs team from three at the start of 2023 to 35 now, stationed strategically in locations where AI legislation is advanced — ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
AI search engine Perplexity says it was working on revenue-sharing deals with publishers when Forbes criticized it for misusing content from Forbes and others — The Scoop — Perplexity, the AI search startup that recently came under fire from Forbes for allegedly misusing its content …
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| Kyodo News: |
Japan passes a law that prohibits Apple and Google from limiting the sale of third-party apps and services that compete with native iOS and Android offerings — Japan's parliament enacted Wednesday a law to promote competition in smartphone app stores by restricting tech giants Apple Inc …
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| Bloomberg: |
Terraform Labs agrees to pay $4.47B to resolve an SEC lawsuit, after a jury in April 2024 found the company and Do Kwon liable for fraud following a civil trial — - Deal includes $204.3 million payment by founder Do Kwon — Terraform, Kwon found liable for fraud in April civil trial
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says ChromeOS will soon be developed on portions of the Android stack, including its Linux kernel and frameworks, to bring AI features to users faster — Google announced today that ChromeOS will be “developed on large portions of the Android stack” going forward.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke steps down to explore “AI/bio” projects within Alphabet; sources say Platforms & Devices team is undergoing a reorg — Back in April, Google announced a merger of the Platforms & Ecosystems and Devices & Services divisions.
More: Android Police, Android Central, and TechCrunch
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs — A hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.
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| Reuters: |
Samsung announces plans to speed up the delivery of AI chips for clients by integrating its memory chip, foundry, and chip packaging services — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said its contract manufacturing business plans to offer a one-stop shop for clients to get their AI chips made faster …
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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
MLCommons shares results from its MLPerf 4.0 training benchmarks, which added Google's and Intel's AI accelerators; Nvidia H100 GPUs topped all nine benchmarks — For years, Nvidia has dominated many machine learning benchmarks, and now there are two more notches in its belt.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, X CEO Linda Yaccarino urged staff to discuss xAI's Grok with advertisers; questions about delayed promotions were largely unaddressed — During an internal all-hands meeting led by X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday, concerned employees tuned in to hear …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Satya Nadella's AI efforts; a source says some future Microsoft AI products may switch from OpenAI's tech to the model developed by Suleyman's team — After landing the deal that launched his company to the front of the artificial-intelligence race, the tech chief is spreading his bets.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dublin-based AccountsIQ, which offers AI-powered bookkeeping, raised €60M, after raising just €12.7M in its nearly 20 year history, and reports 1,000 clients — The European economy is on shaky ground, but there is a silver lining for enterprise startups: Those building tools …
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| Eliana Raszewski / Reuters: |
Amazon and telecom Vrio plan to launch a satellite internet service in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, coming online in mid-2025 — Amazon (AMZN.O) and telecommunications firm Vrio will jointly launch a satellite internet service in seven South American countries …
More: Benzinga, Cord Cutters News, and Advanced Television
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Sources detail Amazon's struggles to build a new generative AI-powered Alexa, including privacy concerns keeping Alexa's teams from using Anthropic's Claude — “Alexa, let's chat.” — With that phrase, David Limp, at the time Amazon's head of devices and services, showed off …
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