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Ford and Tesla have agreed to give Ford EV owners access to over 12,000 superchargers in the U.S. and Canada. This agreement goes beyond access to Tesla superchargers via adapter. Ford’s 2025 EVs will have Tesla’s NACS charge port. Ford’s second-generation EV lineup includes an electric truck and a three-row …

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 …

Microsoft wants companies to build AI-powered “copilots” using Azure tools and OpenAI machine learning models. At its annual Build conference, Microsoft launched Azure AI Studio, a new capability within the Azure OpenAI Service that lets customers combine a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or GPT-4 with their own data—text or images—to …

Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is now rolling out to U.S. and other global subscribers after a delay. After seeing cancellations in markets where it had already introduced “paid sharing,” the streamer delayed the start date to the summer. Under the new rules, U.S. subscribers must either kick people off their …

AllWinner and RockChip, two Chinese companies, power several Amazon-sold Android TV boxes. Android-powered TV set-top boxes are cheap and customizable, combining multiple streaming services into one device. They have thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon. Security researchers say the models are preloaded with malware that can launch coordinated cyberattacks. Daniel …

Today, Photoshop adds a number of Firefly-based features that allow users to extend images beyond their borders with Firefly-generated backgrounds, use generative AI to add objects to images, and use a new generative fill feature to remove objects more precisely than content-aware fill. These features are only in Photoshop beta. …

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a TikTok ban last week. The corporation is now suing to keep the app in Montana. TikTok claims Montana’s ban violates the Constitution by restricting its freedom to host and distribute user-generated material. TikTok also claims that Montana is overstepping its position by legislating national …

Paid blue checks and generative AI make misinformation spread easily, surprising no one. A fake Pentagon explosion image went viral on Monday morning. The image surfaced on a verified Twitter account called “Bloomberg Feed” within 30 minutes, which looked like a Bloomberg account due to its blue check. Suspending that …

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 …

OpenAI’s leadership believes the world needs an international regulatory body like that governing nuclear power quickly because AI is developing rapidly and poses clear dangers. But slowly. In a blog post, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever explain that artificial intelligence innovation is moving …