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OpenAI announced the expansion of the recently released GPT-4.1 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models to ChatGPT. These models were so far exclusive to the company’s application programming interface (API), but on Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI firm said that they will also be available within the chatbot. In particular, the GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini […]

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta promotes Benjamin Joe, its longtime VP for Southeast Asia, to VP of Asia Pacific and expands India VP Sandhya Devanathan’s role to include Southeast Asia  —  Benjamin Joe has been appointed Meta’s new regional vice president for the region, a Meta spokesperson said Thursday. Source link

Google has silently updated its iconic ‘G’ logo with a new design, nearly 10 years after it was refreshed with the modern Product Sans typeface. The previously visible icon comprised sections featuring solid colours in line with the Mountain View-based tech giant’s colour scheme, with each block having a well-defined boundary. Following the update, the Google

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: ahead of I/O on May 20, Google is developing an AI “software development lifecycle agent” to help coders, and a Pinterest-like feature for consumers  —  After weeks of news about Google’s antitrust travails, the tech giant will try to reset the narrative next week … Source link

Amazon introduced a new warehouse-focused robot last week that can carefully manipulate a wide range of objects. Dubbed Vulcan, the new class of robots feature force feedback sensors that allow it to understand the amount of force it is applying while picking an object or pushing a cart. These robots will be used in the

Reuters: Chinese government data: Chinese shipments of foreign-branded cellphones, including iPhones, dropped by 49.6% YoY to 1.887M in March 2025  —  Chinese shipments of foreign-branded cellphones, including Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhones, dropped by 49.6% year on year in March … Source link

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the de-facto federal privacy regulator, said on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposal to make Alphabet’s Google share search data with competitors includes adequate safeguards to protect users’ privacy. The proposal is part of a range of measures the DOJ says are necessary to open up the online

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Amsterdam-based AppSignal, which develops an app monitoring tool that it says is used by 2,000+ organizations, raised a $22M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners  —  Application monitoring startup AppSignal B.V. said today it’s looking to expand its market presence beyond Europe after closing … Source link

OpenAI might be working on introducing more duration-based subscription plans. A tipster shared strings of code from the ChatGPT app and found mentions of weekly and lifetime subscriptions for the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. These tiers could be part of the ChatGPT Plus plan. Notably, the pricing details of the tiers are currently unclear. The

Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law: Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans’ personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent  —  Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans’ personal location … Source link