Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5
But Only for ‘Mini Apps’ Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple will take a mini commission from mini app developers iClarified : Apple Announces Mini Apps Partner Program With 15% Commission Rate Andy Wolber ...
A look at some options for fighting AI companies' scraping, including open-source Anubis' cryptographic JavaScript math challenges and Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth
If you are a website owner you should definitely check it out! [embedded post] Brewster Kahle / @brewster.kahle.org : Interview of the new librarian of the British Library : — www.bloomberg.com/feat...
Doc: UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an antitrust complaint with EU and the UK CMA against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers …
Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating immersive web content, says it has raised $3B from an unnamed private investor at a $12.25B valuation
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iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings
here's the new Apple Intelligence features for your iPhone Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple will let you upgrade to ChatGPT Plus right from Settings in iOS 18.2 iClarified : iOS 18.2 Beta 2 Introduces A...
Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all its customers
“We hear clearly that customers don't want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we've added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. … X: @cloudfl...
Sources: the US DOJ and FTC are discussing which agency can investigate the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and which can probe companies for scraping web content
One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can't pursue an investigation.
News Media Alliance study: AI chatbot developers rely more on articles than generic web content to train AI; NMA says this shows AI companies violate copyright
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online. See also Mediagazer
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations
an order of magnitude larger and significantly more intricate than ever used for this sort of research. Read more: https://ai.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : (1/2) Today, we're anno...
Apple releases iOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, iPadOS 14.8, and macOS 11.6, which fix some CoreGraphics and WebKit flaws that defeated iOS “Blastdoor” protections
why it's critical for iPhone users Tweets: John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : 🚨 UPDATE YOUR APPLE DEVICES NOW🚨 We caught a zero-click, zero day iMessage exploit used by NSO Group's #Pegasus spyware. Ta...