[[{“value”:” If you want to relive Kendrick Lamar’s headline-making Super Bowl halftime show, Apple Music just dropped a replay of the performance in its surround sound-like Spatial Audio. Since Apple currently sponsors the Super Bowl halftime show, the company has permission to republish these musical spectacles — but this is better than just a YouTube video […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Elon Musk-led-team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI
[[{“value”:” A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the reporting with The Wall Street Journal. The unsolicited bid is the latest escalation by Musk in his war with co-founder Sam Altman, as Altman […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google expands NotebookLM Plus to individual users
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Bird cuts 120 jobs, as part of ‘strategic realignment’
[[{“value”:” Bird, formerly MessageBird, has cut 120 jobs — roughly one-third of its workforce — as the startup plans to realign its global operations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe
[[{“value”:” OpenAI says it has spoken to government officials about its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek. The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI’s API. During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the company has talked with government […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
TikTok wants Android users to sideload its app
[[{“value”:” With TikTok’s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the ByteDance-owned company is now encouraging Android device owners to sideload its video app onto their phones and tablets. The company announced in a Friday X […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Apple fixes iPhone and iPad bug used in an “extremely sophisticated attack”
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Macron urges Europe to simplify its regulations to get back into the AI race
[[{“value”:” All eyes were on French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the first day of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris after he annouunced a €109 billion investment package (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) in the French AI ecosystem on Sunday evening. He reiterated this financial commitment from private partners willing […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Rivian opens commercial van sales to all businesses
[[{“value”:” Rivian will sell its commercial electric vans to any U.S. business that wants one — more than a year since ending an exclusivity deal with backer Amazon. The company will sell two vans — the smaller 500 and the larger 700 — but buyers will have to be registered businesses, according to the company. That […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Perplexity’s Super Bowl ‘tweet’ increased app installs by 50%
[[{“value”:” Perplexity’s Super Bowl contest managed to move the needle on its app’s downloads. Unlike OpenAI and Google, the AI search engine chose to forgo an expensive Super Bowl ad in favor of a tweet — sorry, an X post — encouraging users to download its app and enter a contest that could result in a […] © 2024 TechCrunch….