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Irish Examiner
22 minutes ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X or Grok among top apps
Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in the top recommended apps in its App Store. Mr Musk posted the comments on X late on Monday, saying: 'Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your 'Must Have' section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.' Grok is owned by Mr Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI. Mr Musk went on to say that 'Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action'. He gave no further details. There was no immediate comment from Apple, which has faced various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years. A judge recently found that Apple violated a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games. The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone (Rick Rycroft/AP) Regulators of the European Union fined Apple €500m in April for breaking competition rules by preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. Last year, the EU fined the US tech giant nearly $2bn for unfairly favouring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps. As of early Tuesday, the top app in Apple's App Store was TikTok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open AI's ChatGPT was ranked 7th. Read More Elon Musk accuses Apple of unfairly favouring OpenAI on iPhone
Business Insider
24 minutes ago
- Business
- Business Insider
OpenAI engineer's advice to high school students? 'Absolutely learn to code'
Szymon Sidor recently sounded off on why, even in a world with ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools, it's still good for current high school students to learn basic coding. "You should absolutely learn to code," Sidor said during episode of the company's podcast from August. "One skill that is at a premium and will continue to be at a premium is having really structured intellect that can break down complicated problems into pieces." Sidor, who has worked at OpenAI for over eight years, said programming is a great way to learn such a skill. Andrew Mayne, who hosts the podcast and previously served as OpenAI's chief science communicator, questioned the notion that people would downplay learning to code simply because AI tools can do it for you. "Whenever I hear people say, 'Don't learn to code,' it's like, do I want an airplane pilot who doesn't understand aerodynamics? This doesn't make much sense to me," Mayne said. Their views echo some other top voices in the industry, including GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. Dohmke said in April that coding should be taught as a core subject. AI's coding abilities continue to advance. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan earlier this year that the company's AI would soon be able to write code that matches the output of a mid-level engineer. "The obvious tactical thing is just get really good at using AI tools. Like when I was graduating as a senior from high school, the obvious tactical thing was get really good at coding," Altman told Stratechery in March. "And this is the new version of that."
The Hindu
24 minutes ago
- Business
- The Hindu
U.S. government eyes stakes in chipmakers; OpenAI to touch highest valuation for a private firm; Google settles YouTube children's lawsuit
U.S. government eyes stakes in chipmakers U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the U.S. government is looking at picking up more equity stakes in computer chipmakers that are a part of the CHIPS Act. The U.S. federal government is already in talks to receive a 10% equity stake in Intel in exchange for cash grants. Lutnick said the they're exploring companies like Micron, TSMC and Samsung. Intel and Micron are the biggest recipients of grants from the CHIPS Act. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed the decision calling it a 'creative idea that has never been done before.' The U.S. government will not be directing Intel how to run their operations. Similar actions where the U.S. has taken a stake in a company to offer cash have happened before during time periods of economic uncertainty. Earlier this year, Trump approved Nippon Steel's purchase of U.S. Steel after being promised a 'golden share' that would prevent the companies from reducing or delaying investments, transferring production or jobs outside the U.S. or shutting down plants without Trump's permission. The $52.7 CHIPS Act provides funding for research and grants for building chip plants in the U.S. Last year, the U.S. Commerce Department gave out subsidies of $4.75 billion to Samsung, $6.2 billion to Micron and $6.6 billion to TSMC. OpenAI to touch highest valuation for a private firm OpenAI is in discussions to sell $6 billion in shares pushing the AI firm's valuation to $500 billion, the highest valuation for a privately held firm. This would edge it past Elon Musk's SpaceX and TikTok parent ByteDance. Currently, SpaceX is the most valued private company globally at $350 billion. Investors who will be a part of the secondary share sale includes SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital. All of them had already invested in OpenAI earlier. A few weeks ago, OpenAI had raised $8.3 billion at a valuation of $300 billion. The deal was a part of OpenAI's broad strategy to secure $40 billion this year in funding. A Wired report said that there two deals in play. The SoftBank investment in OpenAI which is expected to be closed by the end of the year will value OpenAI at $300 billion. The share sale will move OpenAI 's valuation to $500 billion. Cheaper shares have already been bought while the pricier shares are still on sale. Google settles YouTube children's lawsuit Google will settle a lawsuit filed that alleged YouTube collected personal information of minors without parental consent by paying $30 million. A preliminary settlement of the class action was filed on Monday and is pending approval. Google has denied the allegations. Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had made similar claims and YouTube had paid $170 in fines and made some changes to their practices. Parents and guardians of 34 children accused Google of violating dozens of state laws by allowing content providers to bait children with cartoons and nursey rhymes to help collect sensitive information post the 2019 case. The content providers listed were Hasbro, Mattel, Cartoon Network and DreamWorks Animation but Google said there was insufficient proof that they were collecting data. The class action covered children under 13 years of age and were watching YouTube between July 2013 and April 2020 and had between 35 million to 45 million members as plaintiffs. If 1% to 2% submitted claims in the case, which is the usual rate for similar cases, plaintiffs could receive between $30 to $60 each.
Wall Street Journal
24 minutes ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Startup Valuations Blast Beyond Historic IPO Market Caps
A few private tech companies are now raising money at valuations higher than any tech IPO market capitalizations to date. OpenAI's pending secondary transaction values the AI model maker at $500 billion. SpaceX's recent secondary came in at a $400 billion mark. Anthropic, meanwhile, is in the midst of a new financing at a valuation of about $170 billion, according to reports. Databricks is raising a new funding round that would value the company at $100 billion, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
Business Insider
an hour ago
- Business Insider
OpenAI engineer's advice to high school students? 'Absolutely learn to code'
No, AI doesn't mean you don't have to learn to code, at least according to one OpenAI researcher. Szymon Sidor recently sounded off on why, even in a world with ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools, it's still good for current high school students to learn basic coding. "You should absolutely learn to code," Sidor said during episode of the company's podcast from August. "One skill that is at a premium and will continue to be at a premium is having really structured intellect that can break down complicated problems into pieces." Sidor, who has worked at OpenAI for over eight years, said programming is a great way to learn such a skill. Andrew Mayne, who hosts the podcast and previously served as OpenAI's chief science communicator, questioned the notion that people would downplay learning to code simply because AI tools can do it for you. "Whenever I hear people say, 'Don't learn to code,' it's like, do I want an airplane pilot who doesn't understand aerodynamics? This doesn't make much sense to me," Mayne said. Their views echo some other top voices in the industry, including GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. Dohmke said in April that coding should be taught as a core subject. AI's coding abilities continue to advance. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan earlier this year that the company's AI would soon be able to write code that matches the output of a mid-level engineer. For his part, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said his biggest piece of advice for high schoolers was to master using AI. "The obvious tactical thing is just get really good at using AI tools. Like when I was graduating as a senior from high school, the obvious tactical thing was get really good at coding," Altman told Stratechery in March. "And this is the new version of that."
