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OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper — App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
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Sources: Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data — The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology
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New York City Public Schools lifts its ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI models, and will now support educators and students to learn about and explore AI — After a cautious start, our approach to AI technology is evolving. — As Chancellor of the nation's largest school system …
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| New York Times: |
In a letter to Satya Nadella, Twitter accuses Microsoft of violating an agreement over the use of the social network's data and declining to pay for that usage — In a letter to Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review to replace Google with Bing as the default search engine on its mobile devices, citing market perception concerns — Samsung Electronics suspends internal review that contemplated changing its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing
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A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more — A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p — Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
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Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
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Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399 — Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs. This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will debut next week …
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Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean. But innovation is relentless … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs — At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
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| The Guardian: |
The UK plans to invest up to £1B over the next decade in its semiconductor industry; the US had pledged $52B and the EU €43B for their respective chip sectors — While the US and EU announce bigger programmes, one British startup says the government's investment figure is less than the cost of one basic plant
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A look at Apple's Personal Voice, an accessibility feature that lets ALS patients digitize their voices through an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, set to release in 2023 — Among the many challenges people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face is its impact on their speech.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: Instacart had ad revenue of about $740M in 2022, up 30% from 2021; nearly 30% of Instacart's 2022 revenue came from selling ads — Instacart has become an advertising powerhouse. — The grocery-delivery firm's ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year, up 30% from 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and docs: Midwest nonprofit Veritas Society used geofenced data to serve abortion clinic visitors anti-abortion ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat — Wisconsin group used precise geolocation data until last year to direct ads to women it suspected of seeking abortions
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet — Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients' data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse — Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.
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