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ChatGPT’s mobile app growth may have hit its peak, according to a new analysis of download trends and daily active users provided by the third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia. Its estimates indicate that new user growth, measured by percentage changes in new global downloads, slowed after April. The firm looked at the global daily active user (DAU) growth and found that the numbers have begun to even out over the past month or so. Global DAUs for ChatGPT mobile app.Image Credits:Apptopia Although October is only half over, the firm says it’s on pace to be down 8.1% in terms of…
Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition.Administrators may have been hoping to minimize distractions this homecoming weekend as the school prepares to celebrate a Hoosiers football team with its highest-ever national ranking. Instead, the controversy has entangled the school in questions about censorship and student journalists’ First Amendment rights.Advocates for student media, Indiana Daily Student alumni and high-profile supporters including billionaire Mark Cuban have blasted the school for…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief…
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Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is a veteran Silicon Valley executive who’s seen waves of different technology sweep across the industry as CMO of Mozilla, BitTorrent, and other companies.This time, generative AI is the hot new thing. There’s a healthy debate right now over whether this technology is truly valuable for end users or not. Kaykas-Wolff’s hands-on experience is instructive here.He and his partner, the artist Alexandra Roberts, created a high-end, cannabis-infused cocktail that launches in early 2026. It’s called “Eleanore,” part of a broader brand they’re developing to take pot products from stinky, bong-filled basements into more luxurious environments such as private…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and knowingly possessed several firearms illegally, according to a newly returned indictment that raises the prospect of a lengthy prison term.A federal grand jury issued the two-count indictment Thursday charging former Des Moines schools superintendent Ian Roberts with one count of making a false statement for employment and one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm while being in the country illegally. Together, the charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.Roberts, who…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The five universities that are still weighing President Donald Trump’s higher-education compact have been asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to two people familiar with the matter.The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the private call.It follows a flurry of rejections from four of the nine universities invited to be “initial signatories” of the agreement. The White House asked university leaders to provide initial feedback by Oct. 20, yet as the deadline approaches, none have signed on to the document.Those that have not yet announced…