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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI says the ChatGPT macOS app is now available to all users, after initially rolling it out to Plus subscribers — Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers. Starting today, however, OpenAI says that the ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to everyone.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI delays the release of its advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT by a month to address safety issues and plans to roll out the feature to Plus users in the fall — - Company says it needs extra month to “reach our bar to launch” — Voice feature was a key focus at launch event in mid-May
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google is dropping continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and pagination enables serving results faster — Google Search will stop its continuous scroll user experience where Google loads more results as you scroll past the first page of the search results.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
A look at Tencent's removal of hit game Dungeon & Fighter from Android app stores in China, some of which have default sales split of 50% on games revenue — Tencent Holdings Ltd. this month yanked Dungeon & Fighter Mobile — its hottest new blockbuster — from Android app stores in China.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project has a 200K-token context window — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company backed by Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, has launched a suite …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Reddit says it will update its robots.txt “to be as clear as possible” that companies using an automated agent to access Reddit need to abide by its terms — The warning comes after reports that AI companies regularly ignore instructions not to scrape.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Some iPhone users running the latest iOS 18 beta report being able to send and receive RCS messages on select US carriers — As we reported yesterday, Apple has been getting ready to roll out RCS support on the iPhone with iOS 18. However, doing so also requires mobile carriers to work …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, and other consultants see rising demand for AI advisory services; BCG earns 20% of its revenue from AI-related work vs. 0% two years ago — Rattled by tech's latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo drops its waitlist in San Francisco, letting anyone download its app and hail a robotaxi; in Phoenix, Waymo has been open to the public since October 2020 — ‘Simply download the app and ride.’ — The wait(list) is over. — Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 10 at 9AM ET in Paris, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Z Flip 6 are expected — Samsung's next Unpacked summer launch event will take place on July 10th in Paris, France, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Advantest CEO Douglas Lefever, whose company has a 54% share of the chip testing equipment market, says China will remain an important market despite US curbs — - AI needs complex, costly chipmaking that involves more tests — Advantest focused on delivering solutions to China, CEO Says
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| PYMNTS.com: |
NYC-based Norm Ai, which uses AI to help organizations automate compliance tasks, raised a $27M Series A led by Coatue, bringing its total funding to $38M+ — Norm Ai has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round to expand its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered regulatory compliance platform.| Laura Dobberstein / The Register: |
In a rare admission of ad fraud, Yahoo Japan to waive $189M ad revenue, or ~1.6% of parent company LY Corp's FY 2023 revenue, after detecting fraudulent clicks — Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies — Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.
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| Renée DiResta / New York Times: |
Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work — In 2020 the Stanford Internet Observatory, where I was until recently the research director, helped lead a project that studied election rumors and disinformation.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google will hold a Pixel event on August 13 at 10AM PT in Mountain View, where the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 3 are expected — Google this morning announced that its annual Pixel hardware event will be taking place on August 13.| Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: |
Adonis, which provides healthcare revenue cycle automation services, raised a $31M Series B led by Point72 Private Investments, taking its total funding to $54M — The New York-based company will use the funds to grow its team, continue expanding into health systems and accelerate product innovation.
More: Adonis, Axios, HIT Consultant, and VC News Daily
| Financial Times: |
As growth slows, Chinese tech companies are squeezing more hours out of fewer staff, as some in the industry view PDD's grueling hours as a model to emulate — As growth slows, employers are squeezing more hours out of fewer workers — In a recent video conference with office staff … | Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
Cruise names Marc Whitten, a former Amazon and Microsoft executive, as its new CEO — DETROIT - General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Tuesday announced former Amazon and Microsoft executive Marc Whitten as its new CEO. — Whitten was a founding engineer at Microsoft's Xbox …
More: GeekWire, Cruise Self Driving Cars, Washington Post, Axios, TechCrunch, New York Times, and Bloomberg
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