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■OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it "s weighing an ads business model, with plans to be "thoughtful " about when and where ads appear. In a follow-on statement, Friar stressed it has "no active plans to pursue advertising, " but it seems clear the idea is on the table.The ChatGPT maker has so far relied on subscriptions to support development of its generative AI tools. But the cost of making and serving ...
■Australia "s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law.The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.The legislation passed 102 to 13. If the bill becomes law ...
■The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satellite internet service, with T-Mobile as its provider and a few provisos in place.The proposal dates to summer 2022, when SpaceX and T-Mobile first announced that they were pursuing the ability for the mobile provider "s customers to get Starlink access on their phones. At the time, they said they expected the service to start in 2023, but here we are at the end of 2024 and it "s only just ...
■The U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed on Tuesday it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.The funding will go toward manufacture and advanced packaging (techniques to assemble and integrate multiple semiconductor chips into a single package) projects in Intel facilities across Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon. "Strong bipartisan ...
■Sony is currently making a new handheld gaming console that allows users to play PlayStation 5 games anywhere. According to Bloomberg, the console is being developed to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft in the portable gaming market, and is likely "years away from launch " - if Sony decides to release it at all.The report comes less than a year after the launch of the PlayStation Portal, a Sony portable device designed to stream PS5 games running on a console on the same local ...
■WhatsApp is getting yet another useful feature in the coming weeks, the ability to transcribe voice messages. The messaging app has just announced the users will soon be able to transcribe texts received from friends and family if they "re in a loud place and can "t listen to them or the voice message is too long.In order to use the new feature, you "ll have to navigate to Settings / Chats / Voice message transcripts and enable transcriptions. Don "t forget to select your transcript language too. WhatsApp ...
■European regulators are reportedly set to investigate whether Amazon "s marketplace favors its branded products. The European Union (EU) investigation is "likely " to come next year, Reuters reported Thursday (Nov. 21), citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter.The eCommerce giant could face a fine of as much as 10% of its annual turnover if found guilty of violating the EU "s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is aimed at curbing the power of the world "s tech giants.According to ...
■Sony is now making its PlayStation Portal handheld even more useful. It "s not limited to local streaming anymore: you can now use it to play PS5 games from anywhere with cloud gaming.Cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal is rolling out in the United States, with Europe to follow on Wednesday. Sony launched its cloud streaming feature on PS4, PS5, and PC in 2024, but the PlayStation Portal only had the ability to stream games from a PS5 console on the same local network. With this change, stream select ...
■Google released Chrome in 2008 and it became synonymous with the company and its search engine. Well, that might no longer be the case if if the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has its way. The DOJ "s antitrust officials reportedly plan to request a federal judge orders Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the plan.In August, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google "is a monopolist " in the search engine industry. Mehta further agreed Google used ...
■AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature for its paid customers in the U.S. which offers shopping recommendations within Perplexity "s search results as well as the ability to place an order without going to a retailer "s website.With the move, Perplexity is taking on Google and Amazon, intending to capture a portion of shopping search results.For shopping-related search queries, the tool presents users with visual cards that ...
■The EU fined online giant Meta almost 800 million euros on Thursday for breaching antitrust rules by giving users of its Facebook social network automatic access to classified ads service Facebook Marketplace.The European Commission said the US tech titan also abused its dominant position by imposing unfair trading conditions on other online classified ads service providers that advertise on its platforms.The European Commission has ordered Meta to "bring the conduct effectively to an end, ...