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Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13, a day before the start of Google's annual I/O developer conference — OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers — The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft's own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.
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| Mike Solana / Pirate Wires: |
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more — jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
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| Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: |
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds — The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component — Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly — Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
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| Tim Nudd / Ad Age: |
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark” — The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs — - Company puts Mac-grade chips in data centers for fall launch — Apple to offer features using on-device and cloud approaches
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs previews a music-generating AI model, showing samples of songs with lyrics generated from text prompts — Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is offering an early look at a new model that turns a prompt into song lyrics. To raise awareness, it's following a similar playbook Sam Altman used …
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5% — - For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter. — Samsung led the market by value after capturing …
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| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Filings: SoftBank's Vision Fund has seen its US portfolio shrink by ~$29B since the end of 2021 as, sources say, Masayoshi Son plans forays into AI and chips — Masayoshi Son turns away from aggressive style of venture capital investing, leaving the fund's reduced staff as mostly caretakers.| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India's approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine — KuCoin paid a fine of $41,000 and Binance's financial penalty is still to be determined after a hearing with the FIU.Sponsor Posts
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