Journals

Steven Levy / Wired: Interview with CEO of Groq about its AI chips that enable chatbots to answer queries instantly, sending a cease and desist to X.ai over the Groq trademark, more  —  AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots… Read More »Interview with CEO of Groq about its AI chips that enable chatbots to answer queries instantly, sending a cease and desist to X.ai over the Groq trademark, more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: An analysis of Musk’s claims in his OpenAI lawsuit, which seeks to open up GPT-4’s source code, end Microsoft exclusivity, and stop OpenAI’s for-profit work  —  Also a Harvard Business School alumni Ponzi scheme.  —  Elon… Read More »An analysis of Musk’s claims in his OpenAI lawsuit, which seeks to open up GPT-4’s source code, end Microsoft exclusivity, and stop OpenAI’s for-profit work (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Threads says it will make its API broadly available to developers by June and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite  —  Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make… Read More »Threads says it will make its API broadly available to developers by June and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Will Oremus / Washington Post: To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of “summaries” and “workbooks” that claim to be companions to human-authored books  —  Authors decry an “explosion” of knockoff books on Amazon as… Read More »To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of “summaries” and “workbooks” that claim to be companions to human-authored books (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month  —  After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its… Read More »Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Unionized YouTube music workers learn they were laid off at a meeting where Austin city council was considering calling on Google to bargain with their union  —  “They just laid us all off.  Our jobs… Read More »Unionized YouTube music workers learn they were laid off at a meeting where Austin city council was considering calling on Google to bargain with their union (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won’t remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture  —  Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would… Read More »After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won’t remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Google pulls 12+ popular apps from the Play Store in India for persistently not complying with billing policies, escalating a three-year dispute in the country  —  Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps including recruitment… Read More »Google pulls 12+ popular apps from the Play Store in India for persistently not complying with billing policies, escalating a three-year dispute in the country (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Apple says users and a number of government agencies in the EU raised concerns about the security risks of allowing app sideloading on iOS to comply with DMA  —  A number of government agencies in… Read More »Apple says users and a number of government agencies in the EU raised concerns about the security risks of allowing app sideloading on iOS to comply with DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Elon Musk might be suing OpenAI because he is a troll and has a grudge but his lawsuit puts a spotlight on the empty humanitarian posturing by AI businesses  —  Too many AI startups have seen… Read More »Elon Musk might be suing OpenAI because he is a troll and has a grudge but his lawsuit puts a spotlight on the empty humanitarian posturing by AI businesses (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)