OpenAI says users made over a billion web searches in ChatGPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1-800-ChatGPT to get up-to-date search results (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
NXP says CEO Kurt Sievers will retire at 2025's end, names Rafael Sotomayor as president, reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $2.84B; NXPI drops 7%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Nothing announces the $279 CMF Phone 2 Pro, with a 6.77" 120Hz AMOLED display and three rear cameras, including a 50MP telephoto lens, plus three new earbuds (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
A deep dive on GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
P-1 AI, which is developing an AI-powered engineering agent and hopes AI can eventually design complex machines, emerges from stealth with $23M in seed funding (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Q&A with Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter who Trump fired, likely illegally, as FTC commissioners, on Meta, fighting for privacy, and bribes in the US (Nilay Patel/The Verge) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Temu adds "import charges" of between 130% and 150% "due to recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs"; Shein also hikes prices but without explicit fees (CNBC) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Researchers say bots on Reddit posing as rape victims and more were effective at changing minds in 1K+ posts, in an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment (Jason Koebler/404 Media) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Palo Alto Networks says it aims to acquire Seattle-based Protect AI, sources say for $500M; Protect AI's $60M Series B in 2024 was at a reported $400M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) April 28, 2025 by appcompact