Tech Updates

Arc, a browser that My colleague David Pierce described As an attempt to be “the web’s operating system,” is getting a companion app for iPhones on March 30th. Josh Miller, the CEO of Arc developer The Browser Company, says The app is “NOT a replacement for your default mobile browser (yet),” but it should let …

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Uber Eats is delisting some of the delivery-only restaurants on its app to help weed out low-quality listings, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, The company has confirmed to The Verge that’s introducing a new set of standards for virtual restaurants that should help cut down on listings that sometimes contain the same …

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Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence. In a blog post published on mondaythe company announced a partnership with OpenAI that brings AI-generated summaries, message drafts, and more to the video conferencing app through its Zoom IQ AI-powered assistant. While Zoom IQ can already do things like create …

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It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was racing to adopt its underlying model, ChatGPT launched in November as a …

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Microsoft doesn’t want its rivals to use Bing’s search index to power their AI chatbots, according to a report from Bloomberg, The company reportedly told two unnamed Bing-powered search engines that it will restrict them from accessing Microsoft’s search data altogether if they continue using it with their AI tools. As noted by BloombergMicrosoft licenses …

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A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. internet archives, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more …

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I have a lot of questions! , Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Why is the toolbar a different color? Why is it oval when the buttons it features are square? I have helpfully labeled my concerns. Are you aware that this is ugly? Seriously, what is the logic behind the oval/rectangle divide? Do you …

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Microsoft continues to add AI features to its Bing search engine, even outside of the GPT-powered chat features it’s been pushing. according to a feature roundup blog post, Bing will now “craft AI-generated stories” for some searches, giving you a small multimedia presentation about the thing you looked up. The company says it’s a way …

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People all over the world can now pay for Twitter, as the company has announced that its Twitter Blue subscription service is now available globally, While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects the company’s drive to make Twitter Blue …

Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, despite missing many promised features Read More »

The idea of ??a personal search engine is a powerful and enticing one. What if there were an app that knew everything about my meetings, my tasks, my browser history, my email, and everything else and could help me comb through it to find the stuff I care about? Sounds super helpful! Also, in an …

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