Before today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app was successful in the U.S. and iOS. According to data.ai, the app has reached half a million downloads in its first six days. Only the Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social’s February 2022 launch outperformed it. As demand for AI …

On Wednesday, Meta will lay off about 6,000 people. Meta’s “Year of Efficiency” is reorganizing to save money and flatten the organization, which includes these cuts. Employees expected layoffs. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a March blog post that he would lay off 10,000 workers in late …

Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform, launched today. The new platform, which centers around Microsoft’s OneLake data lake but can also pull data from Amazon S3 and (soon) Google Cloud Platform, includes integration tools, a Spark-based data engineering platform, a real-time analytics platform, and, thanks to Power BI’s …

Meta, formerly Facebook, has been ordered to stop exporting EU user data to the U.S. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) fined Meta €1.2 billion (close to $1.3 billion) today, the largest GDPR fine ever. Amazon was fined $887 million in 2021 for misusing customer data for ad targeting. Meta …

On Tuesday, neurologist, founder, and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and IBM’s chief privacy trust officer Christina Montgomery as they spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee for nearly three hours. Because Altman controls one of the world’s most powerful firms and has frequently requested lawmakers regulate …

Meta revealed its in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI like that used in its recently unveiled ad design and creation tools, at a virtual event this morning. Meta tried to show its superiority by adopting AI-friendly hardware systems, which has slowed its progress compared to Google and Microsoft. …

Google’s Privacy Sandbox lets users manage their interests and form cohorts based on browsing behaviors to replace third-party cookies. After years of debate and testing, the online advertising industry is ready to shift. Today, Google stated it will transfer 1% of Chrome users to the Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party …

Mobile ChatGPT. After months of questionable apps on the App Store, OpenAI launched an official iOS app for their popular AI chatbot today. The company says the new ChatGPT app will be free, ad-free, and allow voice input, but only for U.S. customers at launch. Like its desktop counterpart, the …

Zoom is considering LLM partnerships as generative AI has taken center stage. The company announced a partnership with Anthropic to use its Claude chatbot on Zoom Contact Center today. In March, Zoom announced a partnership with OpenAI to add more generative AI functionality to its products. After two decades of …

  MEPs voted this morning to amend the bloc’s draft AI legislation, including requiring foundational models that underpin generative AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The amendment agreed by MEPs in two committees required foundational model providers to apply safety checks, data governance measures, and risk mitigations before releasing their models, …