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June 26, 2024, 11:30 AM

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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI makes ChatGPT for macOS available to all users after first rolling it out to Plus subscribers; the app can be launched from anywhere using Option + Space  —  Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Meta says “an error” is causing Instagram and Threads to turn on a setting that limits political content from people who users don't follow, upon every app open  —  After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content …
Bloomberg:
Sensor Tower: Nexon's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $270M on iOS in China in the 30 days after its May 21 launch, marking Tencent's biggest release in 2024  —  - ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ is off to a hot start in China  — The Nexon-produced game is Tencent's biggest release this year
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 Galaxy 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.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google drops continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and that 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.
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Atlanta-based Rainforest, which helps software companies “build and optimize” embedded financial services, raised a $20M Series A, taking its funding to $31.75M  —  Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, and other consultants see rising demand for AI advisory services; BCG earns 20% of its revenue from AI-related work, vs. 0% two years ago  —  Rattled by tech's latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
Bloomberg:
India sold 141MHz of spectrum for ~$1.3B in an auction, down from ~$19B in 2022, as the country's three remaining private operators rein in capital spending  —  - Bharti Airtel bought 97 MHz of airwaves for $820 million  — Analysts had forecast that demand for spectrum may be limited
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 …
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date  —  Getting full value out of AI workplace assistants is turning out to require a heavy lift from enterprises.

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