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April 1, 2024, 2:50 PM

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 globally amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in the EU in August 2023  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday …
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected  —  Individual lawsuits targeting firm now seek compensation for alleged improper data tracking  —  Google plans to destroy a trove …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years  —  Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models
Dan Primack / Axios:
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M+ gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge  —  - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, including from OpenAI partner Microsoft, but now lists the fund's gross asset value at over $325 million.
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg:
Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance execs  —  - Board includes three independent members, four insiders  — The firm still has not announced its global headquarters
Brett Martin / New York Times:
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under ~80 pseudonyms on music streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query  —  Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to get on its “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 carousel podcasts last week were participants  —  The Scoop  —  To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, one of the best placements in the audio world …

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