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Source: Altman told investors that OpenAI could become a for-profit business not controlled by its nonprofit board; Microsoft execs favor a for-profit option — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told some shareholders that the artificial intelligence developer is considering changing …
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Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing — Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple's AI, so why won't your $900 year-old model run it? Here's why.
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Leaked documents reveal life-threatening issues at Amazon's primary-care service One Medical, raising concerns about Amazon's frugal approach to health care — Patient safety issues have increased since One Medical shifted care to a call center staffed by contractors, employees say.
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Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications — Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, includes cutting-edge instruct and reward models, and a dataset for generative AI training.
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Sources: the EU has determined that Apple's anti-steering rules for developers do not comply with the DMA, and plans charges against Apple in the coming weeks — Brussels to announce iPhone maker is failing to adhere to new rules designed to open up its app store to competition
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US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020 — - Prosecutors say ‘Empire Market’ did $430 million in sales — Drugs and malicious computer programs were sold, US says
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
How Duolingo uses streaks and notifications to keep users coming back to the app; 70% of Duolingo's 30M+ DAUs have weeklong streaks and 5M have one-year streaks — The learning app doesn't just teach languages. It harnesses the power of streaks and hooks you with perfectly timed nudges.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature in iOS 18 that lets users give Siri a new wake word, such as “hello, computer” — Apple in iOS 18 added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature, and now that iOS 18 is available in a beta capacity, users have figured …
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| Rollo Romig / New York Times: |
A profile of game publisher Devolver Digital, which gives indie studios immense creative freedom, doesn't take IP rights from them, and is turning 15 on June 25 — Devolver Digital teams with independent video game studios and gives them immense freedom. Just don't kill Jeff Bezos.| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
A look at tech companies' investments in AI startups: Nvidia and NVentures completed a total of 32 deals in 2023, while Microsoft and M12 made 21 investments — Just last week it was reported chip giant Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures 1 and Cisco all participated in a $450 million investment for Toronto-based AI startup Cohere.| Keza MacDonald / The Guardian: |
Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie — In this week's newsletter: While the blockbuster end of the games industry is in the doldrums, independent developers are leading a creative resurgence| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads — Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don't always find it helpful.| Andrew Leland / New York Magazine: |
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features — The headset is already changing disabled users' lives. — In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected …
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