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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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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a higher energy density battery and a stainless steel battery case that helps Apple comply with EU rules about replaceability — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
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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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status — The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter … | Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China's currency beyond the mainland — - The launch is the first to take place beyond mainland China — China is pushing to grow the yuan's share of global payments| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools — The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc's online governance regime …
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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.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round — - Software company's venture arm has invested in the AI startup — Reka was started in 2022 by researchers from Google, Meta| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI will avoid a UK antitrust probe after the CMA finds Microsoft can't “materially influence” Mistral's commercial policy — - CMA said the tie-up does not qualify under merger rules — Watchdog is looking into Big Tech AI startup investment| Wall Street Journal: |
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 — Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an artificial-intelligence cloud-computing startup backed by Nvidia … | 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.
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: Tesla plans a China data center to train its global self-driving system with Chinese FSD data, after previously seeking to move the data out of China — Tesla (TSLA.O) is pushing ahead with plans to power the global development of its self-driving system with data from China …
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