Kate Knibbs / Wired: Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple’s Applebot-Extended AI crawler  —  This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July  —  – Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M  —  Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that would value the ChatGPT maker above $100B  —  Following partnership with the ChatGPT maker on Apple Intelligence, tech giant would join multibillion-dollar funding round alongside Microsoft and Thrive Capital Lees verder op Tech Meme