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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the “benefit of humanity” over profits — OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Elon Musk says OpenAI is “not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft” and claims GPT-4 constitutes an AGI — Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture — Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries — Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of “summaries” and “workbooks” that claim to be companions to human-authored books — Authors decry an “explosion” of knockoff books on Amazon as the company struggles to keep up.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google confirms it is blocking rooted Android phones from using RCS, citing the need to abide by the RCS standard's “operating measures” to stop spam and abuse — In recent weeks, Android users with rooted or bootloader unlocked phones have found that RCS in Google Messages does not work.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple says users and a number of government agencies in the EU raised concerns about the security risks of allowing app sideloading on iOS to comply with DMA — A number of government agencies in the European Union and elsewhere have voiced concerns about security risks as Apple (AAPL.O) …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month — After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option … | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
In a hearing, a federal judge sounded skeptical of X's claims in its lawsuit against CCDH; an expert says it is “a SLAPP suit disguised as a contractual suit” — X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google pulls 12+ popular apps from the Play Store in India for persistently not complying with billing policies, escalating a three-year dispute in the country — Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps including recruitment platform Naukri, matrimony service Shaadi …
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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership — Late last year, in a meeting between Google and Meta Platform staffers, Google suggested that Meta partner on Android XR …
More: Reuters, Road to VR, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Google, Wccftech, The Ghost Howls, and Channel NewsAsia
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Threads says it will make its API broadly available to developers by June and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite — Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
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