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OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …
More: OpenAI, The Verge, MacRumors, This Week in Fintech, PYMNTS, Engadget, Implicator.ai, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, WeRSM, Digital Trends, Mashable, and The Tech Portal
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Bluesky: @numb.comfortab.ly, @stevenjcbuckley, and @seosavvyagent.com. Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …
Forums: r/technology, r/BetterOffline, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/privacy
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
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Forums: r/OpenAI, r/technology, r/ChatGPT, and r/ChatGPTcomplaints
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, The Decoder, and Semafor
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap Inc. reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction … | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
xAI launches Grok Build, an agent and CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in early beta, available first for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — Elon Musk's xAI is rolling out its first artificial intelligence coding agent, called Grok Build, in an attempt to catch … | Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The standoff comes as Chinese firms increasingly turn to domestic chipmakers like Huawei … | Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
| Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: |
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage if they don't add a phone number — Update: Google has confirmed that it's testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail users, unless they add their number. — •
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends well in App Store review controversies. Back in March, a major agentic coding company made news …
More: The Information, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, TechRadar, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, Computerworld, and The Mac Observer
X: @amasad and @zhenthebuilder
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Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is planning to price its blockbuster initial public offering as early as June 11 … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.| Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: |
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy — Nearly 27 years ago, on July 12 …
More: Implicator.ai and Yahoo Finance
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LinkedIn: Nora Anwar and Bassam Tabbara
| Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Incident is latest example of professional services firm being led astray by new technology — EY has withdrawn a study … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out new features for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up support for third-party apps — You can also now capture a video combining what you see on the lens display, what you see in the world, and the audio around you.
More: Meta, Engadget, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, PCMag, Android Authority, Tech Times, and CNET
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst.
More: Inc.com, RuntimeWire, and The Economic Times
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors underestimate Microsoft 365 — Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has built a $2.1 billion stake in Microsoft Corp., taking advantage of a decline in the company's share price … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Social media platform commits to providing faster review of reported material following regulator's investigation| Transformer: |
OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-China talks, AI executive order, and Anthropic's $900b valuation … - Scott Bessent said the US and China will … | Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company's licensing of its semiconductor technology …
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