Kif Leswing / CNBC: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT iOS app downloads and Bing app downloads in the US were down 38% MoM in June 2023; Bank of America: visits to ChatGPT were down ~11% MoM  —  – AI may be the hottest thing in the technology industry, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google’s grip … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Gfycat, a Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, plans to shut down on September 1, 2023; the site was down for five days in May due to an expired SSL certificate  —  Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff.  —  The internet continues to get a bit more fragmented and less accessible every week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date  —  OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Instagram’s Threads launch countdown jumps forward and now indicates a July 5 launch at 7PM ET; the countdown previously suggested a July 6 launch at 10AM ET  —  Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, may launch a few hours earlier than we expected now that the countdown on threads.net … Lees verder op Tech Meme