Sara Fischer / Axios:
Rumble sues Google, saying it owes Rumble $1B+ in damages for lost ad revenue, and for exploiting its ad tech dominance to hamper Rumble’s ability to compete — Rumble, the publicly-traded YouTube alternative that’s favored by conservatives, has filed a lawsuit against Google and its parent Alphabet
Q&A with Walt Mossberg and YouTuber Marques Brownlee on tech reviews, handling pushback, YouTube, the issues with paid content, earning people’s trust, and more (New York Magazine)
New York Magazine:
Q&A with Walt Mossberg and YouTuber Marques Brownlee on tech reviews, handling pushback, YouTube, the issues with paid content, earning people’s trust, and more — The two titans of tech reviewing talk shop with Kara Swisher. — Despite being two of the most influential tech reviewers ever …
Kyle Vogt, who resigned as Cruise CEO six months ago, raised $150M for The Bot Company, a household robot startup, sources say at a $550M post-money valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)
Kenrick Cai / Forbes:
Kyle Vogt, who resigned as Cruise CEO six months ago, raised $150M for The Bot Company, a household robot startup, sources say at a $550M post-money valuation — Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation …
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: gorgeous screen, blazing performance with M4, thin, front camera is in the right spot, but iPadOS can’t keep up with the hardware (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: gorgeous screen, blazing performance with M4, thin, front camera is in the right spot, but iPadOS can’t keep up with the hardware — Apple’s latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing.
GPT-4o’s text and image capabilities are rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Team users; GPT-4o’s voice version is coming soon; mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios:
GPT-4o’s text and image capabilities are rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Team users; GPT-4o’s voice version is coming soon; mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o — – She said the new GPT-4o — that’s a letter “o”, for “Omni” — is a “huge step forward when it comes to the ease of use” as well as speed.
Google’s rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026 (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Google’s rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026 — The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites, threatening millions of creators
Meta announces Travel Mode, in beta, for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 under “Experimental features”, as a way to optimize the headset for use on moving vehicles (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Meta announces Travel Mode, in beta, for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 under “Experimental features”, as a way to optimize the headset for use on moving vehicles — Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets are picking up a useful new Travel Mode which makes the VR experience easier to use in moving vehicles including on an airplane.
Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform detection of unwanted tracking devices, EU app downloads from websites, Apple News+ features like offline mode, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform detection of unwanted tracking devices, EU app downloads from websites, Apple News+ features like offline mode, more — Apple today released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, major updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
OpenAI opens its GPT Store to all users for free, including the ability to create custom GPTs (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Wes Davis / The Verge:
OpenAI opens its GPT Store to all users for free, including the ability to create custom GPTs — OpenAI is making a number of its previously subscription-only features available to free users of ChatGPT, with the biggest being the ability to create custom chatbots and browse its GPT Store.
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming this year (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming this year — Microsoft is attempting to solve the hassle of coordinating with colleagues on when everyone will be in the office.
