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Apple is salvaging Image Playground with a boost from ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-18 10:03:17

When Apple unveiled Image Playground last year, the company touted it as a quick and easy way to generate personalized, original images with the help of Apple Intelligence. Upon launch, the app was met with skepticism, as some users were disappointed by its limitations and low-quality results. For example, one Reddit user was surprised to find that Image Playground kept generating an image of a hand with six fingers when prompted to create an “up close image of a hand.” In another instance, a u

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ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-18 02:50:00

Editor's take: Despite being hailed as the next step in the evolution of artificial intelligence, large language models are no smarter than a piece of rotten wood. Every now and then, some odd experiment or test reminds everyone that so-called "intelligent" AI doesn't actually exist if you're living outside a tech company's quarterly report. A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess. Citrix engi

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WhatsApp tells BBC it backs Apple in legal row with UK over user data

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-19 11:01:09

WhatsApp tells BBC it backs Apple in legal row with UK over user data 12 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Getty Images WhatsApp has told the BBC it is supporting fellow tech giant Apple in its legal fight against the UK Home Office over the privacy of its users' data. The messaging app's boss, Will Cathcart, said the case "could set a dangerous precedent" by "emboldening other nations" to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep customers' in

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ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-09-18 15:20:14

ChatGPT was down for some users on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 outage reports on Downdetector, a site that logs user reports of internet issues. OpenAI said there was a full recovery in the API at 3:24 p.m. EDT but the status still showed a "degraded performance." "We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT," the status update said. The artificial intelligence chatbot gave some users a "Too many concurrent requests" message, or would not answer questions. The OpenAI stat

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ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 15:04:54

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT is seemingly still less smart — at certain tasks, at least — than an Atari game console from almost 50 years ago. In a post on LinkedIn, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso explained how the OpenAI chatbot "got absolutely wrecked" by an Atari 2600 running Atari Chess, a game for the system released in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was still president. Launched in 1977, the Atari 2600 — also marketed at the time as the Atari Video Computer System — popularized at-

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People Are Asking ChatGPT for Relationship Advice and It’s Ending in Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 16:11:35

Despite ChatGPT's well-documented issues, people are using it to advise them on relationship issues — and it's going about as well as you'd expect. In a new editorial, Vice advice columnist Sammi Caramela said she had been blissfully unaware of the ChatGPT-as-therapist trend until someone wrote into her work email about it earlier this year. Back in February, an unnamed man told the writer that his girlfriend refused to stop using the chatbot for dating advice and would even bring up things it

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People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-19 13:31:48

Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible — and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds. According to OpenAI's status page, the company has experienced major issues this week, leading to breathless coverage from sites like TechRadar and The Independent — and, unsurprisingly, some massive freakouts on social media. "F*ck I can't code without ChatGPT," someone on the r/ChatGPT subreddit raged. "Ok I can but I am too dependent on ChatGPT to do the grunt work lol." In that s

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Google Messages is finally getting group chat icon customization and RCS tags for contacts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 13:00:59

TL;DR Google has finally announced that custom icon support for RCS group chats will soon be available in Google Messages. The company has also confirmed that Google Messages will soon allow users to snooze chats. In addition, the messaging app will clearly label contacts with RCS enabled. Although Google has been working on adding custom icon support to RCS group chats in Google Messages for quite some time, the feature has yet to reach users. We first spotted references to the feature in a

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WWDC25: Image Playground gets a boost with ChatGPT integration

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 08:15:06

Apple just announced a notable update to Image Playground, its AI-powered image generation tool introduced last year as part of the Apple Intelligence rollout. Now, ChatGPT will appear as a filter option. Here’s what that means. Since its phased rollout last year, Image Playground has offered users an easy way to create illustrations in styles like “Sketch,” “3D cartoon,” and “Animation”. However, users have complained that the app has often felt somewhat limited, both in the kinds of images it

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OpenAI adds the o3-pro model to ChatGPT today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 16:21:26

OpenAI is keeping up its rapid-fire pace of new AI releases. The company introduced the o3 and o4-mini models to its ChatGPT platform in April. At the time, the business promised that a pro model of the o3 was on the way, and that version became available today. Both the o3 and o4-mini models are meant to use and combine all the tools under ChatGPT's umbrella. When OpenAI adds the "pro" designation to a model, it's a version that has been built to spend longer answering queries to provide bette

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Snapchat adds a new subscription tier for Lenses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 15:10:18

Snapchat has added a new layer to its paid offerings. The Lens+ subscription combines the existing Snapchat+ monthly plan with more access to "hundreds of Lenses and AR experiences that let you play, create, and share Snaps with friends in whole new ways." The plan will cost $9 a month. At the start, the subscription will feature Lenses made by the company or by select creators. New augmented reality experiences will be added each week. Creators will be granted the option to build and monetize

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Chatterbox TTS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 15:23:52

Chatterbox TTS _Made with ♥️ by We're excited to introduce Chatterbox, Resemble AI's first production-grade open source TTS model. Licensed under MIT, Chatterbox has been benchmarked against leading closed-source systems like ElevenLabs, and is consistently preferred in side-by-side evaluations. Whether you're working on memes, videos, games, or AI agents, Chatterbox brings your content to life. It's also the first open source TTS model to support emotion exaggeration control, a powerful feat

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 12:38:00

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "

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Snapchat rolls out a new $8.99 Lens+ subscription tier

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-19 12:54:14

Snapchat on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Snapchat+ tier called “Lens+.” The new tier costs $8.99 per month and, as its name suggests, is centered around giving users access to exclusive Lenses and AR experiences. In addition to giving users access to the perks unlocked with the standard $3.99 per month Snapchat+ tier, Lens+ gives users the ability to use hundreds of Lenses that let you “play, create, and share Snaps” with others, the company says. “We’re starting with Lenses built b

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ChatGPT’s weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-04 10:55:19

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition. More people are adopting ChatGPT through word of mouth, with personal use driving its continued growth. OpenAI’s enterprise business is also expanding, now with 2 million paying users as companies integrate AI into their workflows. The AI chatbot battle continues to reshape the tech landscape, but OpenAI — the company behind ChatGP

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 12:04:51

OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday . The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The operation appears to have been particularly interested in spotting call

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ChatGPT's AI agent Operator is now available for most Pro users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 09:30:50

It's now out for most regions where ChatGPT is also available, though the EU isn't included. Operator is now out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and most places where ChatGPT is also available, OpenAI has announced. The company launched Operator in the US back in January, introducing it as an "agent that can go to the web to perform tasks" for the user. Operator can handle various browser-based tasks for users, such as filling out forms, making restaur

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OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-06-04 05:31:32

OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator — its AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland. Operator, which launched in January in the U.S., is one of several “AI agent” tools on the market that can be

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A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims

techcrunch.com Carly Page 2025-06-04 10:22:20

A trove of chat logs allegedly belonging to the Black Basta ransomware group has leaked online, exposing key members of the prolific Russia-linked gang. The chat logs, which include over 200,000 messages spanning from September 18, 2023, to September 28, 2024, were shared with threat intelligence company Prodaft by a leaker. The cybersecurity firm says the leak comes amid “internal conflict” within the Black Basta group after some members allegedly failed to provide its victims with functional

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-06-04 08:47:16

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the company’s growing reach across both consumer and enterprise markets, according to an X post from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap on Thursday. The rapid expansion comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Elon Musk’s xAI and China’s DeepSeek, b

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ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 10:36:35

ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active user count reported by the company in August 2024 , which was double the figure it posted in November 2023. The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the c

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Black Basta ransomware gang's internal chat logs leak online

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-06-04 10:48:32

An unknown leaker has released what they claim to be an archive of internal Matrix chat logs belonging to the Black Basta ransomware operation. ExploitWhispers, the individual who previously uploaded the stolen messages to the MEGA file-sharing platform, which are now removed, has uploaded it to a dedicated Telegram channel. It's not yet clear if ExploitWhispers is a security researcher who gained access to the gang's internal chat server or a disgruntled member. While they never shared the r

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10 key reasons AI went mainstream overnight - and what happens next

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-06-04 10:07:00

ZDNET This AI thing has taken off really fast, hasn't it? It's almost like we mined some crashed alien spacecraft for advanced technology, and this is what we got. I know, I've been watching too much *Stargate*. But the hyper-speed crossing the chasm effects of generative AI are real. Generative AI, with tools like ChatGPT, hit the world hard in early 2023. All of a sudden, many vendors are incorporating AI features into their products, and our workflow patterns have changed considerably. Als

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OpenAI now serves 400M users every week

techcrunch.com Romain Dillet 2025-06-04 10:45:35

In Brief OpenAI is increasingly looking like a consumer company, telling CNBC that it now has 400 million weekly active users. Usage is still growing at a rapid pace as the AI developer behind the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, “only” had 300 million users in December 2024. Though OpenAI has not revealed the number of paid customers with an active subscription to ChatGPT Plus or ChatGPT Pro. On the B2B front, ChatGPT’s enterprise plans are growing nicely: OpenAI now has 2 million paying enterprise users

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Russian Groups Target Signal Messenger in Spy Campaign

darkreading.com Jai Vijayan 2025-06-04 11:21:28

Multiple Russia-aligned threat groups are actively targeting the Signal Messenger application of individuals likely to exchange sensitive military and government communications related to the country's war with Ukraine. For now, the activity appears limited to persons of interest to Russia's intelligence services, according to researchers at Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), who spotted it recently. But the tactics the threat actors are using in the campaign could well serve as a bluep

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Latest Tech News

Apple is salvaging Image Playground with a boost from ChatGPT

ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

WhatsApp tells BBC it backs Apple in legal row with UK over user data

ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

People Are Asking ChatGPT for Relationship Advice and It’s Ending in Disaster

People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down

Google Messages is finally getting group chat icon customization and RCS tags for contacts

WWDC25: Image Playground gets a boost with ChatGPT integration

OpenAI adds the o3-pro model to ChatGPT today

Snapchat adds a new subscription tier for Lenses

Chatterbox TTS

ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

Snapchat rolls out a new $8.99 Lens+ subscription tier

ChatGPT’s weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population

OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

ChatGPT's AI agent Operator is now available for most Pro users

OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries

A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims

OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

Black Basta ransomware gang's internal chat logs leak online

10 key reasons AI went mainstream overnight - and what happens next

OpenAI now serves 400M users every week

Russian Groups Target Signal Messenger in Spy Campaign

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