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Apple unveils its OpenAI deal, bringing ChatGPT's "expertise" to Siri and its other apps as an option, rolling out in 2024; users don't need an OpenAI account (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using new "immersive audio and video" tech that uses 3D sound on a 5G smartphone, as part of the 5G Advanced standard (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

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AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes)

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Meta is rolling out a new Communities feature on Messenger to all users globally, allowing up to 5,000 people to join a Community through shareable invites (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via "automated and manual methods" to improve its services and software (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Discord adds new monetization features for developers and plans to halve the 30% platform fee for the first $1M in cumulative gross sales, from June 6 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies are using the same loophole (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

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The US FTC opens an antitrust probe of Microsoft's deal with Inflection AI that included hiring Mustafa Suleyman and paying $650M to resell Inflection's tech (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race due to its AI team struggling to collaborate with other product teams, lacking computing resources, and more (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)

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Washington DC's AG says Michael Saylor and his company MicroStrategy will pay $40M to settle a tax suit, calling it "the largest income tax recovery" ever in DC (Kelly Phillips Erb/Forbes)

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Google's chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years; Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also leaving (Forbes)

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An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more (Parker Hall/Wired)

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Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted "12k of shipped H100 GPUs" for Tesla to X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Palmer Luckey unveils the $199 ModRetro Chromatic, a take on the Nintendo Game Boy, with USB-C video out and a 1,000+ nits custom screen, shipping this holiday (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has held talks with customers over moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount but such a move would be impossible (Reuters)

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OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content provided it is properly labeled and "not prominently displayed" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Raspberry Pi plans to sell shares at £2.60 to £2.80 each in its London IPO, aiming to raise ~£157M; existing shareholder Arm has agreed to buy $35M of shares (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

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FCC ends the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans afford internet service, after the House failed to approve additional funding (Brian Fung/CNN)

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A look at the different approaches to AI integration and modularization taken by Google, AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and Databricks, and the implications (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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In a risk assessment, the US Treasury says NFTs are "highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams" and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

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PwC plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its 75K US staff and 26K UK staff, becoming the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI's enterprise product (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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Samsung's labor union said it will carry out its first ever strike after wage negotiations, which have been ongoing since the start of 2024, broke down (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the last three days, making access inconsistent, however the collections remain safe (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

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Researchers find that GPT-4 outperforms human analysts in predicting future corporate earnings growth even when provided only with financial statements (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Google says it is "taking swift action" to remove AI Overviews on certain queries "where appropriate under our content policies" (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

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Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

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Ukrainian officials say Russia is deploying more advanced tools to disrupt Starlink, raising questions about its reliability against sophisticated adversaries (New York Times)

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A Texas federal jury orders Micron to pay $445M to computer memory company Netlist for willfully infringing on two parents related to improving memory modules (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Sources: Alphabet and Meta are in talks with Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren't willing (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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X Director of Engineering Haofei Wang says "we are making likes private" in an update happening "soon", as "public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior" (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

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As Nvidia's business booms, a look at some potential issues: rivals and key customers making their own AI chips, startups struggling to monetize AI, and more (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

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Istanbul-based Colendi, which provides digital banking services, raised a $65M Series B at a $700M valuation from Citi Ventures and others (Inci Ozbek/Bloomberg)

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Truecaller partners with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech to let its AI Assistant users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls based on a recorded clip (Emilia David/The Verge)

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Spotify begins rolling out Spotify Mix, a new bespoke typeface, replacing the Circular typeface variant on everything from playlists to marketing campaigns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Sources: Amazon plans to make Alexa more conversational later in 2024, adding generative AI features, and will charge a fee to offset the cost of the tech (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

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China releases an AI model trained on "Xi Jinping Thought" and other official literature, initially in research testing, a source says before a wider launch (Financial Times)

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OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest destiny philosophy: "This is happening, whether you like it or not", consent be damned (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

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Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its AI pin; a source says the startup is seeking a price of between $750M and $1B (Bloomberg)

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Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

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Truth Social's parent company, the Trump Media and Technology Group, reports $771K in Q1 revenue, a net loss of $327.6M, and an operating loss of $12.1M (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Neuralink gets US FDA approval to implant its brain chip in a second person; source: FDA signed off on proposed fixes like embedding wires deeper into the brain (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

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Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI (Financial Times)

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Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia (Cassandra Willyard/MIT Technology Review)

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Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity (Sam Altman/@sama)

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Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing (Steven Levy/Wired)

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