Cruise employees were informed by Slack message that General Motors (GM) plans to end funding for the self-driving car company, absorbing it into GM and combining it with the automaker's own autonomous vehicle development efforts.

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Apple is updating Siri with new features and integration with ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence, its generative AI technology. This allows Siri to answer questions it couldn't before, such as providing recipe ideas using specific ingredients.

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AI news cycle overwhelming, TechCrunch temporarily suspends newsletter due to volume of announcements and events.

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When using ChatGPT through Apple's integration, OpenAI doesn't receive IP addresses, store requests, or use them to train AI models if you don't log into a ChatGPT account.

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Apple is collaborating with Broadcom to develop its first AI-focused server chip. This chip will be used to handle computationally intensive AI tasks for services like Siri and Maps, which are currently run in the cloud.

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Lumen Orbit, a space data center startup, raised $11 million in seed funding at a $40 million valuation. The company, which participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, attracted significant investor interest, leading to the opening of an additional SAFE round.

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