Hearst, which owns a substantial portion of the media landscape, has just signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate Hearst content into its products (The Verge’s parent company Vox Media also partners with OpenAI).
Hearst owns 24 daily newspapers and 52 weekly newspapers, 175 websites and more than 200 magazine editions worldwide, making this one of OpenAI’s biggest media partnerships.
I’m coming to you live from my hot-as-hell apartment here in San Francisco. We’re facing a historic heat wave and none of us have apartment air conditioning.
Even funnier, the AC at OpenAI HQ is broken, according to an employee. The office is based in the Mission district, which tends to get hotter than the rest of the city. (One Google DeepMind staffer flaunted his working AC in reply: “We’re hiring!”)
OpenAI is slated to close the largest funding round in history at $6.5 billion next week, and as the Wall Street Journal reports, Apple has just pulled out of the round in the eleventh hour.
Apple’s involvement was already surprising—it’s rare for the iPhone maker to invest in external companies. The reporting of a potential investment came after Apple announced a ChatGPT integration into Siri.
Zuckerberg is doing a demo with mixed martial artist Brandon Moreno, where they are using the Ray-Ban Metas to do live translation in English and Spanish.
Zuckerberg is speaking in English, Moreno is speaking in Spanish, and it seems like they are able to have a short discussion. This feature is still in the works, but the company says it’s coming soon.
“The demo gods are looking somewhat favorably on us,” Zuckerberg said.
