Week in review: Apple will not raise prices – yet

Welcome again a week in review! We have a lot of news for you today: Amazon profits, Apple profits, Sycophance chat, artificial intelligence models in Ali Baba, and much more. Let’s get it!

Good? During the Apple profit call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid 900 million dollars in definitions The last quarter. But despite this, CEO He did not announce any increase in prices – To date.

Big Bache: Defeense Tech Startup Mach Industries, which was founded by 21 -year -old Ethan Thornton, It is about to close $ 100 million in financingThe sources told Techcrunch. This new financing should reach a total start -up financing of about $ 185 million so far.

More models: Ali Baba announced this week It launches a family of artificial intelligence modelsQWEN3, it is called that it may be superior to Openai and Google. According to Albaba, QWEN3 models are “hybrid” models, which are not yet available for download.

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Fire exchange of stars: Amazon’s efforts to create a space -based internet has started this week: The company was launched first 27 satellites on the Internet Tuesday. The first half of the network must be published by mid -2016 to meet the deadline of the Federal Communications Committee.

Amnesty International in your pocket: The definition is Introduction to an independent Amnesty International applicationWhich was revealed at the first event at Llamacon on Tuesday. The application allows users access to Meta AI in the app, similar to the ChatgPT app and other AISANT applications.

Prohibited A judge in India Blocking a proton offering an encrypted email offering Throughout the country. This was a response to a legal complaint submitted by the New Delhi, which claimed that its employees had received email messages containing obscene and vulgar content that was sent via proton mail.

Checaton never win: Cluley has recently gone because of her bold claim of helping people cheat in everything. But some startups claim They can capture Cluely users.

Alexa+: The new Amazon digital assistant aims to allow users to talk to them in a more natural way and eventually they have an agent that allows them to use third -party applications on behalf of the user. During the Amazon profit call this week, CEO Andy Jassi says that 100,000 users now has alexa+.

Amnesty International is concerned: Airbnb seems to take a more measured approach with artificial intelligence. Start Offering a customer service that works on behalf of artificial intelligence Pot in the United States last month. CEO Brian Chesky said in February that the company will use artificial intelligence to serve customers before it begins to implement it for other uses such as travel planning or tickets for reservation.

Employed judgment: Epic games Win In a continuous legal dispute with Apple. Judge IV Gonzalez Rogers said that Apple was in a “deliberate violation” of the order of 2021, which banned the company on imposing anti -competition prices. As a result, Fortnite can return to iPhone devices as soon as possible next week.

Very funny: After the ruling of epic games, Stripe subscribes to documents that show iOS developers How to avoid apple committee.

Check your settings: Meta was sent by Ray-Meta Owners on Tuesday with a notification that the features of artificial intelligence will be now Empowering glasses by default. This means that Meta’s AI will analyze images and videos that are taken with glasses while playing some of the artificial intelligence features.

Yixes! Openai said it was “Return” The last update of the virtual intelligence model that runs Chatgpt, GPT-4O, after complaints about strange behavior, especially that it is excessively acceptable and verifying it. According to Openai, the update, which was aimed at making the virtual personality of the model “easier and effective”, ” He was very informed of “short -term reactions.” The company is now pledged to make changes This is prevented from happening in the future.

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Drama: We read through the Epic V decision. Apple consisting of 80 pages to withdraw the judge The juicer, the most comments. Here is one to start: “Apple has been involved in tactics to delay the procedures. The court later concluded that the delay equivalent to profits.”