Clara Murray / Financial Times: Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI’s GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT’s site in February, suggesting limited appeal  —  CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal Source link

Apple’s festive season sale is live and the company has begun offering its products at discounted prices during the sale. As part of the ongoing sale, customers can avail of an instant discount of up to Rs. 10,000 — this is valid on select products. Meanwhile, Apple is also offering an additional Rs. 6,000 off

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022  —  The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year.  —  Chat

Rick and Morty season 7 debuted Sunday in the US and with that, its new voice actors replacing co-creator Justin Roiland have been revealed. Narrator Ian Cardoni plays the alcoholic scientist grandpa Rick Sanchez, while Harry Belden voices the bumbling grandson Morty Smith. The new voices, or rather ‘soundalikes’ as Adult Swim puts it, were

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Oregon’s governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used  —  Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed … Source link

Google for India 2023 is set to kick off on Thursday and the search giant is expected to show off innovations to artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet technologies at its annual event. The 9th edition of Google for India could see the company announce details of its plans to improve access to Internet in India,

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts that call for violence against trans people and describe trans and gender nonconforming people as “satanic” and more  —  GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets Source link

Mortal Kombat 1 has debuted its first post-launch character Omni-Man from the Robert Kirkman comic book Invincible. NetherRealm Studios dropped the gameplay trailer during the New York Comic Con 2023 event, revealing a set of brutal moves that were pulled straight from the eponymous animated series adaptation on Amazon Prime Video. The villainous character will

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Poland’s consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including with dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe opened in Feb. 2023  —  Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. Source link

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the new anime series from Netflix, just got a trailer, promising a vibrantly stylised affair that reimagines the classic battle of the exes tale. While the art style draws heavily from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original graphic novel series, it brings back the cast from Edgar Wright’s 2010 live-action film. As such,