Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo “some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates”, which Sam Altman says are “not gpt-5, not a search engine” — Following a report that the company plans to launch a Google Search competitor next week …
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “Show more like this” and “Show less like this” post menu options (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “Show more like this” and “Show less like this” post menu options — Bluesky is now allowing users to personalize their main Discover feeds. The social network is rolling …
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google’s director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel’s camera bar design, more (Raymond Wong/Inverse)
Raymond Wong / Inverse:
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google’s director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel’s camera bar design, more — Lais Borges/Inverse; Photograph by Raymond Wong — Not too long ago, smartphones had more personality.
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google — Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow the EU and US in trying to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google — Japan, South Korea and Australia are tightening rules …
Memo: Spotify’s head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify’s reduced ambitions in podcasts (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Spotify’s head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify’s reduced ambitions in podcasts — – Executive internally announced her departure on Thursday — Exit follows layoffs, show cancellations and reorganizations
Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India’s approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India’s approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine — KuCoin paid a fine of $41,000 and Binance’s financial penalty is still to be determined after a hearing with the FIU.
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component — Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5% (Counterpoint Research)
Counterpoint Research:
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5% — – For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter. — Samsung led the market by value after capturing …
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds (Amaka Nwaokocha/Cointelegraph)
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph:
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds — The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly — Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
