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June 26, 2024, 2:00 AM

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI delays the release of its advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT by a month to address safety issues and plans to roll out the feature to Plus users in the fall  —  - Company says it needs extra month to “reach our bar to launch”  — Voice feature was a key focus at launch event in mid-May
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT macOS app is now available to all users, after initially rolling it out to Plus subscribers  —  Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers.  Starting today, however, OpenAI says that the ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to everyone.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google is dropping continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and pagination enables serving results faster  —  Google Search will stop its continuous scroll user experience where Google loads more results as you scroll past the first page of the search results.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo drops its waitlist in San Francisco, letting anyone download its app and hail a robotaxi; in Phoenix, Waymo has been open to the public since October 2020  —  ‘Simply download the app and ride.’  —  The wait(list) is over.  —  Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project has a 200K-token context window  —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company backed by Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, has launched a suite …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 10 at 9AM ET in Paris, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Z Flip 6 are expected  —  Samsung's next Unpacked summer launch event will take place on July 10th in Paris, France, the company announced on Tuesday.
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Some iPhone users running the latest iOS 18 beta report being able to send and receive RCS messages on select US carriers  —  As we reported yesterday, Apple has been getting ready to roll out RCS support on the iPhone with iOS 18.  However, doing so also requires mobile carriers to work …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies  —  Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.
Renée DiResta / New York Times:
Stanford Internet Observatory's former research director details the online rumor mill that led to SIO ending its rapid-response election observation work  —  In 2020 the Stanford Internet Observatory, where I was until recently the research director, helped lead a project that studied election rumors and disinformation.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were  —  The company denied making “major changes,” but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
Cruise names Marc Whitten, a former Amazon and Microsoft executive, as its new CEO  —  DETROIT - General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Tuesday announced former Amazon and Microsoft executive Marc Whitten as its new CEO.  —  Whitten was a founding engineer at Microsoft's Xbox …
Bloomberg:
Sources: India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs investigation finds Byju's did not commit financial fraud but had compliance lapses that led to mounting losses  —  - Inspectors find no evidence of fraud or accounting malpractice  — Yet firm's broader problems remain as it tries to bounce back
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