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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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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its diagnostics tool for self-service repairs from the US to 32 countries in Europe, including the UK, and plans to launch in Canada next year — Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair is now available in 32 European countries, the company announced today.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Nexon's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M on iOS in China in the 30 days after its May 21 launch, marking Tencent's biggest release in 2024 — - ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ is off to a hot start in China — The Nexon-produced game is Tencent's biggest release this year| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google drops continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and that 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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| 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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| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Animoca Brands, which was valued at $6B in 2022, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong or the Middle East in 2025, four years after it was delisted in Australia — Animoca Brands, a crypto gaming and metaverse conglomerate valued at $6 billion in 2022, is considering a public listing in Hong Kong …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data — Last July, Google made an eight-word change to its privacy policy that represented a significant step in its race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.
| Financial Times: |
Sources: YouTube is in talks with Sony, Warner, and Universal to license their songs for an AI music generation tool that mimics popular singers — Licensing negotiations come as industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence — YouTube is in talks … | 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Creatio, which offers a no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, raised $200M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1.2B valuation — Creatio, the no-code CRM and workflow automation platform, on Wednesday announced that it has raised a $200 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
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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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| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Rainforest, which helps software companies “build and optimize” embedded financial services, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31.75M — Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding … | Bloomberg: |
India sold 141MHz of spectrum for ~$1.3B in an auction, down from $19B in 2022, as the country's three remaining private operators rein in capital spending — - Bharti Airtel bought 97 MHz of airwaves for $820 million — Analysts had forecast that demand for spectrum may be limited| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing” — OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems …
More: Android Headlines and MarkTechPost
| Reuters: |
Data connectivity software provider CData raised ~$350M led by Warburg Pincus, source says at a $800M+ valuation, and says it expects $100M in ARR by 2024 end — Data connectivity solutions provider CData Software has raised nearly $350 million in growth equity financing led …
More: TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fetcherr, which wants to let airlines provide dynamic pricing by using AI to forecast demand, raised a $90M Series B, bringing its total funding to $114.5M — The airline industry is headed for record revenue this year — $996 billion — as the demand for travel soars. But the margins remain razor-thin.| 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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| Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg: |
Kaiko: spot bitcoin ETFs' launch in the US helped Bybit double its market share to 16% in March, crossing Coinbase to become the world's second-largest exchange — - Bitcoin ETFs helped Bybit's market share rise, Kaiko says — Binance remains biggest exchange even after losing share| 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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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Atos says a consortium led by its largest shareholder Onepoint has withdrawn from bail-out talks and that EPEI has expressed interest in restarting discussions — - Billionaire Kretinsky's EPEI is interested in restarting talks — Atos still aims for a refinancing deal with creditors in July| 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.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
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