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Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing — - The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in — A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry's giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
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| William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log: |
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers — At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
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| Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: |
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board — As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) … | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015 — - Report reassures investors about its prospects with AI — Google parent already twice breached level on intraday basis| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days — EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models.| Jonathan Ford / Financial Times: |
A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful — Dana Mattioli's important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google said on Friday it would invest $3 billion to set up a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.| Andy Edser / PC Gamer: |
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub — Fond memories of beige machines. — Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon — - Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats
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| Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post: |
The IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K+ households in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction — In its first year, more than 140,000 households in 12 states did their taxes with Direct File — The Biden administration …
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