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đ¤ī¸đĢ Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather app when asked to design a weather app. [link]
đđ Sources reveal Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI's board as part of their partnership announced last month. Phil Schiller, Apple's former marketing chief, chosen for the position. The role would match that of Microsoft.[link]
đąđ¤ Google plans to introduce AI features for the Pixel 9 under the Google AI brand, including Pixel Screenshots, which lets users search their screenshots using on-device AI. This implementation is great news for those concerned with privacy. [link]
đģ⨠Snapchat adds new features, enabling Snapchat+ subscribers to design a personalised house on Snap Map and send Snaps that last less than 0.5 seconds. [link]
đ Meta announces it will lift its ban on the word "shaheed" or "martyr" in English, following its oversight board's year-long review, which found the approach to be "overbroad". [link]
đŧ Revolut's 2023 revenue nearly doubled to ÂŖ1.8B following a substantial increase in interest income, rising from ÂŖ83M in 2022 to ÂŖ500M. Auditor BDO gave Revolut's accounts a clean bill of health. [link]
đ§ đ¨đŗ China plans to establish a technical committee for brain-computer interface standards, covering areas such as brain information encoding and decoding, and data communication. [link]