Welcome again a week in review! We have a lot of news for you today: Amazon profits, Apple profits, Sycophance chat, artificial intelligence models in Ali Baba, and much more. Let’s get it!
Good? During the Apple profit call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid $ 900 million in customs duties in the last quarter. But despite this, the CEO has not announced any price increase – yet.
Big Bache: Sources told Techcrunch that Starter Tech Startup Industries, which was founded by 21 -year -old Ethan Thornton, is about to close $ 100 million in financing. This new financing should reach a total start -up financing of about $ 185 million so far.
More models: Alibaba announced this week that it is emitting a family of artificial intelligence models, which is called QWEN3, which claims to be superior to Openai and Google. According to Albaba, QWEN3 models are “hybrid” models, which are not yet available for download.
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Fire exchange of stars: Amazon’s efforts to create a space -based internet has started this week: The company launched the first 27 online moons on Tuesday. The first half of the network must be published by mid -2016 to meet the deadline of the Federal Communications Committee.
Amnesty International in your pocket: Meta is applying the independent artificial intelligence application, which was unveiled at the first Llamacon event on Tuesday. The application allows users access to Meta AI in the app, similar to the ChatgPT app and other AISANT applications.
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Prohibited A judge in India prevented a proton mail, coded email, all over the country. This was a response to a legal complaint submitted by the New Delhi, which claimed that its employees had received email messages containing obscene and vulgar content that was sent via proton mail.
Checaton never win: Cluley has recently gone because of her bold claim of helping people cheat in everything. But some startups claim that they can capture Cluely users.
Alexa+: The new Amazon digital assistant aims to allow users to talk to them in a more natural way and eventually they have an agent that allows them to use third -party applications on behalf of the user. During the Amazon profit call this week, CEO Andy Jassi says that 100,000 users now have Alexa+.
Amnesty International is concerned: Airbnb seems to take a more measured approach with artificial intelligence. I began to launch a customer service robot that works with an intelligence in the United States last month. CEO Brian Chesky said in February that the company will use artificial intelligence to serve customers before it begins to implement it for other uses such as travel planning or tickets for reservation.
Employed judgment: Epic Games won a continuous legal conflict with Apple. Judge IV Gonzalez Rogers said that Apple was in a “deliberate violation” of the order of 2021, which banned the company on imposing anti -competition prices. As a result, Fortnite can return to iPhone devices as soon as possible next week.
Very funny: After the ruling of epic games, Stripe shares documents that show iOS developers how to avoid the Apple Committee.
Check your settings: Meta Meta Meta Owners on Tuesday sent a notification that the features of artificial intelligence will now be enabled on the glasses by default. This means that Meta’s AI will analyze images and videos that are taken with glasses while playing some of the artificial intelligence features.
Yixes! Openai said that “Rolling” said the last update of the AI’s default model that operates Chatgpt, GPT-4O, after complaints about strange behavior, especially since it is very acceptable and verifying validation. According to Openai, the update, which was aimed at making the virtual character of the model “more easy and effective”, was informed, through “short -term reactions”. The company is now pledged to make changes that would prevent this from happening in the future.
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Drama: We read through the Epic V decision. Apple consisting of 80 pages by withdrawing the harsh comments and most of the judge. Here is one to start: “Apple has been involved in tactics to delay the procedures. The court later concluded that the delay equivalent to profits.”
