Slack may be training its AI off of your messages: Slack is tapping its own user data to train some of its new AI services. If you don’t want your data to become part of a training set, you have to email Slack to opt out. Read More
Humane might be looking for a buyer: After a bumpy launch of Humane's $700 Ai Pin, Bloomberg reports that the company could be looking to sell — and has priced itself between $750 million and $1 billion. Read More
Microsoft Build explores AI-first hardware: At its annual developer conference, Microsoft launched Copilot+ PCs and announced new AI capabilities for Windows, including an upcoming “Recall” feature. Read More
Spotify tests Spanish-speaking AI DJ: Spotify is developing an alternative version of its AI DJ feature that will speak Spanish. References to “DJ Livi” were spotted in the app’s code by tech veteran and reverse engineer Chris Messina. Read More
Free laundry hack?: Two UC Santa Cruz students uncovered a security flaw allowing anyone to avoid paying for laundry provided by over a million internet-connected laundry machines. Read More
Meme lords for Biden: President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is looking to hire a meme manager as it continues to try to appeal to younger voters. Read More
ChatGPT’s app gets a revenue spike: OpenAI’s GPT-4o launch has driven the company’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the model being freely available on the web. The app earned $4.2 million across the App Store and Google Play following the launch. Read More
FCC takes on AI-generated political ads: The FCC has floated a requirement that AI-generated content be disclosed in political ads. The proposal would apply to “cable operators, satellite TV and radio providers,” but not streamers or YouTube. Read More
The secret to getting into Y Combinator: Y Combinator accepts less than 1% of the applications it receives. In a conversation with General Catalyst’s Teresa Carlson, CEO Garry Tan revealed the “secret sauce” for getting into the startup accelerator. Read More
Adobe vs. iOS emulator: Adobe threatened legal action against retro game emulator Delta because it believed the app’s logo too closely resembled its own. Delta’s icon was intended to be a stylized Greek letter delta, but it has updated the logo to avoid any issues. Read More