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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI no longer requires an account to use ChatGPT, but with “slightly more restrictive content policies”, starting in a few markets and rolling out globally — OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven't bothered making an account.
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, The Verge, Digital Trends, Cybernews.com, Engadget, BGR, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, ZDNet, PCMag, Axios, Tom's Guide, Lifewire, The Decoder, Search Engine Land, Reuters, The Crypto Times, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 globally amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in the EU in August 2023 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected — Individual lawsuits targeting firm now seek compensation for alleged improper data tracking — Google plans to destroy a trove …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AltStore, an alt iOS app store coming to EU thanks to DMA, plans to use a Patreon integration to let devs tie access to their apps to users' Patreon pledges — Apple's chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) …
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X: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out the gains from last week, after it disclosed a $58M+ loss on $4.1M in revenue in 2023 — Shares of Donald Trump's social media company plunged 21% on Monday, wiping out the gains from its debut last week …
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
AI search engine Perplexity, whose website said that search should be “free from the influence of advertising-driven models”, says the startup plans to sell ads — The AI search engine must prove ad scalability and address brand safety concerns
More: Decrypt, Search Engine Land, and The Verge
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| Bloomberg: |
Cloud data management startup Rubrik files for a NYSE IPO under the symbol RBRK, discloses a net loss of $354M on revenue of $628M for the year ended January 31 — - Data security provider says subscription ARR grew by 47% — Rubrik's filing follows trading debuts by Reddit, Astera Labs| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple researchers detail an AI system that can resolve references to elements displayed on a screen, in some cases better than GPT-4 can when given screenshots — Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can understand ambiguous references to on-screen entities …
More: Wired, AppleInsider, arXiv.org, 9to5Mac, BGR, and 9to5Mac
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| Max Tani / Semafor: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Telegram now lets Premium users turn their account into a business account, with options like a custom start page, greeting and away messages, and chatbots — Messaging app Telegram is preparing to take on Meta's WhatsApp and Messenger with a new set of features aimed at businesses as well as support for ad-revenue sharing.| Lasso Security: |
To highlight an attack vector, a researcher made a package with a name hallucinated by ChatGPT; it had 30K+ downloads in three months and appeared in many repos — I kicked start on this follow-up research for several reasons: — — 1️⃣ I investigate whether package …
More: Pluralistic, SecurityWeek, and Simon Willison's Weblog
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years — Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models
More: The Verge, Social Media Today, and Marcus on AI
Threads: @gwestr, @robtyrie, and @dseetharaman
X: @carnage4life, @davidclinchnews, @alex, @jeffjarvis, and @dkobia
| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger raised ~$2.2B for its latest fund, well short of the $6B target and its smallest fundraising haul in about a decade, after raising a $12.7B fund — - Firm told investors in 2022 that it aimed to raise $6 billion — PIP 16 is dwarfed by previous fund, which raised $12.7 billion
More: The Information and Financial Times
X: @carnage4life, @bryce, @jasonlk, @trace_cohen, and @eghosao
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance execs — - Board includes three independent members, four insiders — The firm still has not announced its global headquarters
More: The Block, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and Blockworks
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