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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M in Chinese iOS sales in the 30 days after its launch on May 21, 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
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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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| 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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| 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.
| 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
| 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.
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Creatio, Enterprise Times, and Tech Funding News
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sensi, which uses AI to analyze audio and let home care agencies virtually monitor seniors, raised a $31M Series B, bringing its total funding to $53M — Older adults increasingly want to age in their homes rather than nursing facilities. — A study by the American Association of Retired People …
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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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.| 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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| 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 — - The distressed French IT group sees new setback in rescue plan — Atos still aims for a refinancing deal with creditors in July| 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: |
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