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OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for logged-in users outside of the EU — A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
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| Wired: |
At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while” — “I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; last week, OpenAI deals boosted SHOP and ETSY — OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler's cell phone and Citadel Insecurities. — OpenAI/AMD
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them — Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman's huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
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| Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law — “We heard Californians loud and clear, and what's clear is that they don't want commercials at a volume any louder than the level … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major Play Store changes in the antitrust case Epic filed in 2020 — - Google asked Supreme Court to freeze parts of judge's order — Order was issued in suit by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry — Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI's impact on creators' livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange invests $2B in Polymarket in a deal that values the prediction market at ~$8B; Atlanta-based ICE has a $90B+ market cap — Investment from Intercontinental Exchange could help the popular prediction market re-enter the U.S.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI — OpenAI's flood of announcements are getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month:
More: ZDNET, Tech.eu, Digit, Artificial Ignorance, and The Economic Times
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE, and IBM aims to make Claude available in more products soon — The AI startup and enterprise tech giant team up to make Anthropic's Claude models available to developers on IBM's software| Sima Kotecha / BBC: |
UK police dismantle an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen smartphones from the UK to China, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones — Police say they have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year.
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| Katie Drummond / Wired: |
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, music streaming economics, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more — The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He'd rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.
Bluesky: @wired.com
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M — Rami Karabibar and Ray Mieszaniec were rejected from Y Combinator at least three times. And that was just the beginning.
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April — Apollo, Northwestern Mutual, Pantera Capital and Stillmark are joining Bain Capital and crypto investor Haun Ventures …
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