Apple’s App Store is no longer an option for Spotify subscribers. After their billing cycle, those users will get a free account. They must then buy a website plan. Variety reported that the music streaming company recently began emailing App Store payment users. Spotify announced this. “We recently started notifying …

Samsung announced today that it will hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26, likely unveiling the Galaxy Fold 5 and Galaxy Flip 5. “On the Flip Side” is the company’s first Seoul event. Samsung Newsroom, Samsung.com, and the company’s YouTube channel will stream this event at 7 AM …

According to co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Threads has gained 10 million users in seven hours. The highly anticipated new service requires an Instagram account for onboarding, but deleting a Threads account requires deleting the linked Instagram account. Meta states in its “Supplemental Privacy Policy”: “You may deactivate your Threads …

Reddit had a rough month after changing its data API. In the past month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network fought with developers and moderators, and many subreddits went dark and protested. Since the API changes and rate limits went into effect on July 1, …

Microsoft announced several AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and Edge sidebar chatbot today. Microsoft Edge’s shopping features haven’t been popular, but this new set of tools looks useful. Bing will now automatically generate buying guides for queries like “college supplies” using GPT-powered AI. It will automatically …

According to , a high school accidentally reset everyone’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” after a cybersecurity audit. Oak Park and River Forest (OPRF) High School in Illinois informed parents last week that during a cybersecurity audit, “due to an unexpected vendor error, the system reset every student’s password, preventing students from …

Today, Meta announced a remarkable claim to clarify its content recommendation algorithms. It prepares for behavior analysis systems “orders of magnitude” larger than ChatGPT and GPT-4. That’s necessary? Meta occasionally explains some of its algorithms to demonstrate its transparency. This can be enlightening or raise more questions. It’s a mix. …

Dust, a French AI startup, breaks down internal silos, surfaces important knowledge, and provides tools to build custom internal apps to boost team productivity. Dust uses LLMs on internal company data to give team members superpowers. Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu co-founded the company. In 2015, Stripe bought their startup, …

ChatGPT may have captivated the world. However, Google-owned DeepMind claims that its next large language model will surpass OpenAI’s. Wired reports that DeepMind is using AlphaGo’s techniques to create Gemini, a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Wired that Gemini will solve problems and plan. Hassabis described Gemini as …

Wade Norris wanted to create a life-changing project at Google. He co-founded Google Lens, a computer vision app that displays object information. It didn’t satisfy. Norris and aerospace systems engineer Scott Baron founded SnapCalorie, a health-focused startup, several years ago. AI-powered SnapCalorie estimates a meal’s calories and macronutrients from a …