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Sam Altman says ChatGPT has hit 800M weekly active users 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments.   ChatGPT’s impressive growth comes as OpenAI is on a race to secure as many AI chips and build as much AI infrastructure as possible. In August, OpenAI said it was on the cusp […]

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Meta Llama: Everything you need to know about the open generative AI model

Like every Big Tech company these days, Meta has its own flagship generative AI model, called Llama. Llama is somewhat unique among major models in that it’s “open,” meaning developers can download and use it however they please (with certain limitations). That’s in contrast to models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and most of OpenAI’s ChatGPT models, which can only be accessed via APIs.  In

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Instagram updates its Map feature to make it easier to tell if you’re sharing your location

Instagram announced on Monday that it’s updating its Map feature to make it easier to see whether you’re sharing your location. The social network also announced that it’s launching the Snap Map-like feature to users in India, following the initial rollout to users in the United States and Canada in August. When the feature first

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Suspect arrested after threats against TikTok’s Culver City headquarters

Police say they have arrested a suspect allegedly connected to multiple online threats that led TikTok to evacuate its headquarters near Los Angeles on Friday. A press release from the Culver City Police Department says that TikTok employees reported receiving multiple threats, across various social media platforms, from 33-year-old Hawthorne resident Joseph Mayuyo. After an

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Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Prior to Sora’s launch this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had been telling Hollywood studios and agencies that they needed to explicitly opt out if they didn’t want their IP to be included

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Snapchat is going to charge for storage — here’s how to save your Memories for free

Nearly a decade after becoming a digital time capsule for your life’s moments, Snapchat is set to put a price on its Memories feature. The company announced last week that it’s capping free Memories storage at 5GB. If your Memories exceed the limit, you will need to either export them or sign up for one

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Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store

Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, following pressure from the Trump administration. The app, which went viral earlier this year, allowed users to lawfully share information about where they’ve seen ICE agents within a 5-mile

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