Productivity app Portal’s Mac app launched. With vivid backgrounds and natural sounds, the company helps customers focus and work better. The PC and iOS apps share goals. The company reported over a million app downloads. The native Mac program, compatible with Apple silicon, targets professionals who work from home and …

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 …

OpenAI tweeted that the official ChatGPT mobile app is available in more countries. Last week, OpenAI launched its iOS-only mobile app in the U.S. Europe, South Korea, New Zealand, and more can now download the app from the App Store. Ad-free ChatGPT is free. Since it’s just a chatbot interface, …

Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital led a $77.8 million pre-Series C deal for South African digital banking platform TymeBank. TymeBank stated that its Series C round will close later this year. TymeBank’s third-largest stakeholder, Tencent, led the fintech’s $70 million Series B extension round in December 2021. Patrice Motsepe’s African …

Netflix now makes it easier for iOS and Android users to search “My List,” a section for saved movies and TV shows. On Monday, the streaming service added new filters to the My List feature, allowing users to sort titles by release date, alphabetical order, type, and when they added …

Today, WhatsApp announced message editing, a long-awaited feature. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that users can now edit messages within 15 minutes. Press and hold a message and tap “edit” to change it. Edited messages will be marked “edited” next to the time stamp. The app won’t save corrections. Edited …

Amazon One’s palm-scanning payment technology now supports age verification. Today, Amazon One customers can buy adult beverages like beers at a sports event by hovering their palm over the device. This feature will debut at the Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field. Amazon says more venues will get the technology in the …

Meta launched an AI Sandbox today to help advertisers create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts, and image cropping for Facebook and Instagram ads. The first feature lets brands create different versions of the same copy for different audiences while maintaining the ad’s message. Background generation simplifies campaign asset …

OpenAI may be synonymous with machine learning, and Google is trying to pick itself up, but rapidly multiplying open source projects that push the state of the art and leave deep-pocketed but unwieldy corporations in their dust may soon threaten both. Although not existential, this Zerg-like threat will keep the …

Apple and Google announced today that they will lead an industry-wide initiative to draft a specification that alerts users to unwanted Bluetooth tracking after numerous cases of Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s AirTag being used for stalking or other criminal apps. Other tracker makers like Samsung, Tile, Chipolo, eufy Security, and …