Happy Friday.
Weekend is booting⦠so before you log off and touch some grass, a quick scan of what just popped in AI, streaming, and chips.
Enjoy today's news.
π is revising its developer API policies to ban apps that pay users for posting, targeting AI slop and reply spam.
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OpenAI launches a standalone ChatGPT Translate tool supporting 50+ languages.
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It is also investing in Sam Altmanβs Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface research lab focused on linking human biology and AI, by participating in the startupβs seed funding round.
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Google releases TranslateGemma, an open suite of translation models supporting 55 languages.
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Netflix signs a new deal with Sony Pictures to bring Sonyβs movies exclusively to the platform after their theater run.
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Taiwan signs a $250B deal to invest in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.
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Nvidia will get a 25% U.S. tariff on its H200 AI chips shipped to China.
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Spotify raises its U.S. subscription prices, with Premium going up to $12.99 a month.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. Interesting: multiple AI models were given $10K to bet with to see how they can reason about the most probable outcomes π
