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WhatsApp introduced View Once messages for text, photos, and videos back in 2021. Now, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform is expanding this feature to voice messages. With this feature, users will be able to set voice messages to disappear after their recipient listens to them. Like the View Once photos and videos, View Once voice […]

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: In his first public appearance since returning to OpenAI, Sam Altman says AI is “going to lift the world up”, and you cannot build AI “safely in a vacuum”  —  – Altman spoke on the ethics of AI and need to push exploration  — ‘You gotta deploy,’ says the chief of

Fortnite maker Epic Games has prevailed in its high-profile antitrust trial over Alphabet’s Google, which alleged the Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly, in a ruling that if it holds could upend the entire app store economy. Jurors found for Epic on all counts, a court filing showed, after more than a month

David Shepardson / Reuters: Gina Raimondo says she plans to make ~12 chips awards within the next year, including some worth multi-billion dollars that could reshape US’ chips production  —  U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday she expects to make around a dozen semiconductor chips funding awards within the next year … Source link

Amazon.com on Tuesday announced a new artificial intelligence chip for its cloud computing service as competition with Microsoft to dominate the market for artificial intelligence heats up. At a conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Chief Executive Adam Selipsky announced Trainium2, the second generation of chip designed for training AI systems. Selipsky said

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese memory chipmaker Changxin is delaying its Shanghai IPO for a more favorable market and instead plans to raise funds at a ~$19.5B valuation  —  – Government-backed Changxin put Shanghai IPO on the backburner  — Changxin among the firms key to China’s goal of matching US Source link

Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has begun rolling out to X (formerly Twitter). The ChatGPT rival, which takes a witty tone in contrast to existing chatbots, will be available to Premium+ subscribers of X. According to xAI, Grok assimilates real-time knowledge of the world via X and will respond to sensitive

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple redesigns Apple TV in iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2 with a sidebar that unifies content; iTunes now redirects users searching for shows and movies to Apple TV  —  Starting Monday, the iTunes Store app on iPhone and iPad will redirect users searching for TV and film titles to the newly

Beeper Mini was recently released as an Android app that allowed users to access Apple’s iMessage service for a small monthly fee. The attempt was something similar to what UK-based Nothing had introduced recently. But soon after its launch, the app, from former Pebble Co-Founder Eric Migicovsky, faced an outage. Apple confirmed that it blocked

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: TikTok plans to invest $1.5B in a joint venture with GoTo, aiming to comply with regulations in Indonesia so that TikTok can restart its shopping service there  —  – Chinese firm will combine its shopping business with GoTo unit  — TikTok has used Indonesia as template for global shopping push Source