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Fortnite and the Epic Games Store are coming to iOS in Europe

Four years after leaving iOS, Fortnite is coming back — but only European players will be dropping in this time. The endless beef between Epic Games and Apple over the company’s App Store fees took its most recent surprise turn … Continue reading

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OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of diversity on its board

OpenAI has been criticized for the lack of diversity on its board. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Solana Mobile still has a long way to go until it hits breakeven

If Solana Mobile’s devices have 100,000 users, Yakovenko views that user base as a stronger distribution channel for dApps than through traditional app stores like Google or Apple. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Swift retaliation: Fans strike back after explicit deepfakes flood X

Nonconsensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of thousands of likes before it was removed. The pop star has one of the … Continue reading

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Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes as it releases internal report on pedestrian crash

Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations into the October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. The probes by the Department … Continue reading

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Startup brewing waste to replace palm oil gets Gates Foundation cash

The Gates Foundation is pumping millions into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting palm oil alternatives. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work

OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of API access — this is primarily of interest … Continue reading

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FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings

The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. Orders have been sent to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI that will, as Chair Lina Khan … Continue reading

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Apple reveals big App Store and iOS changes incoming in EU on DMA day

Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its response to the bloc’s ex ante competition reform, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Back in September, the … Continue reading

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Google extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators

Last summer, Google launched Project IDX, its experimental web-based full-stack development environment with built-in support for Codey, Google’s version of GitHub Copilot, and Flutter, Google’s cross-platform development framework. With today’s release, Google is delivering on several promises it made when … Continue reading

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