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This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives

April 15, 2023

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk reportedly rushing to assemble a rival to OpenAI

April 14, 2023

Not satisfied with dismantling Twitter, Elon Musk is reportedly planning to take on his erstwhile ally OpenAI, and is currently attempting to collect the money and people necessary to do so. The busy billionaire may tap the resources of his several companies to accelerate the work, but there is good reason to be skeptical of […]

Elon Musk reportedly rushing to assemble a rival to OpenAI by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Sam Altman: Size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward

April 14, 2023

When OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman speaks these days, it makes sense to listen. His latest venture has been on everyone’s lips since the release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT, one of the most sophisticated large language model-based interface created to date. But Altman takes a deliberate and humble approach, and doesn’t necessarily believe that when […]

Sam Altman: Size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: cancer-fighting bacteria, and ChatGPT in the classroom

April 14, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming. The news: There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them…