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Google, Indian devs tussle over Android rules

View this email online in your browser By Christine Hall Monday, April 1, 2024 Good afternoon, and welcome to TechCrunch PM. I hope you had a great weekend. Now, buckle up because I have some great stories for you. Among them is a story about not needing a ChatGPT account to use it anymore. There's also news about a startup making synthetic natural gas from electricity and air and Telegram is taking on Meta. Enjoy! — Christine TechCrunch Top 3 No ChatGPT account for you: That's right, OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven't bothered making an account. But as reporter Devin Coldewey writes, there are some catches. Namely, you won't be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or other stuff that generally has to be associated with a persistent account. Read More Passing gas: Terraform Industries is helping us reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons. Its technology, a system it calls the Terraformer, uses electricity and air to produce synthetic natural gas. And for the first time, it has commissioned a demonstrator Terraformer. Read More The AltStore cometh: Move over, Apple, the AltStore, an alternative app store, is taking advantage of Europe's Digital Markets Act, and Apple's woes with it, to launch an updated version of its app marketplace in the European Union with plans to support Patreon-backed apps. Read More Afternoon must-reads Telegram challenges Meta: Messaging app Telegram's new features aimed at businesses and ad-revenue sharing are live. Check out Telegram Business, which has some options that have it going after the likes of WhatsApp and Messenger. Read More Women in AI: In our ongoing series of interviews focused on remarkable women who've contributed to the AI revolution, meet Urvashi Aneja, the founding director of Digital Futures Lab. Aneja recently authored a study on the current uses of AI in India, reviewing use cases across such sectors as policing and agriculture. Read More Early Stage Boston: Get ready for the April 25 event! Among those presenting is Fidelity, which will share "Preparing to Raise: Cap Table Best Practices to Help You Close Fast." So if you're preparing to raise money to fuel your startup, don't miss this session. Read More A MESSAGE FROM TECHCRUNCH The TechCrunch PM Auction Opens Today More than a quarter of a million users end their workdays with TechCrunch PM. Want to talk to this engaged audience? TechCrunch's auction for Q3 and Q4 inventory opens today Monday, April 1. Email newsletter.auction@techcrunch.com for more information and to submit your bid.  Submit Your Bid Around the web What goes up, must come down. As was the case with Trump Media's shares after the company said it lost $58 million. The drop effectively shaved off some valuation, too. The Washington Post has more. Meanwhile, Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD, backed by investors like Warren Buffett, reported its sales jumped in March amid a fiercely competitive EV market, The Wall Street Journal reported. Your move, Tesla. And here's a public-private partnership that we didn't know we needed but are glad to see it happening. UPS will become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service, The Hill reported. TechCrunch Minute Amazon bets $4B on Anthropic's success: The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items. One of those is that Amazon put another $2.75 billion into Anthropic AI last week. Alex Wilhelm does a quick rewind through some of the largest AI rounds in the last few quarters. Hit play! A MESSAGE FROM BRAINDATE Braindate powers connections at TechCrunch Early Stage Are you ready to network at TechCrunch Early Stage this year? Braindate is thrilled to be powering connections at the event. More than your typical networking tool, Braindate turns events into knowledge-sharing feasts! Braindate fosters knowledge-sharing conversations among people at events, communities, and organizations. Learn from your peers and meet new people based on shared interests! Learn about Braindate On the pods On today's Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, Alex Wilhelm dug into the latest news from Discord that indicates it is moving toward opening its gates for advertisements. He also looked at a super-neat startup round concerning trucking; TechCrunch's latest cybersecurity scoop, which is big news for AT&T customers; and even upcoming changes to the Android podcasting ecosystem that will see YouTube Music gain even more prominence inside of Alphabet's consumer empire. Listen here Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. 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Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office

Microsoft is introducing a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 that excludes Teams.

View this email online in your browser By Alex Wilhelm Monday, April 1, 2024 Welcome to TechCrunch AM! This morning, we've got some significant news about venture capital, notes on shifts in the cloud industry, and a big cybersecurity scoop that's well worth your time (especially if you are an AT&T customer). Also in the mix are some neat startups and a nifty climate forecasting tool. — Alex TechCrunch Top 3 1. GGV Capital splits into Asia and U.S. brands: The firm was known for its cross-border investing between the United States and China, and it has now settled on new names for its U.S.- and Asia-focused firms. GGV's split was announced about half a year ago, but we recently learned that its Singapore-based operation will be called Granite Capital, while its U.S.-based team will work under the name Notable Capital... Read More 2. Cloud providers bend on egress fees: As the reality of a multi-cloud world sets in, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are relaxing their fees for moving your cloud data off their platforms. Egress fees, as the charges are known, were never popular and were built to make it harder to swap vendors. Now, thanks to a stricter regulatory environment and consumer backlash, things are changing... Read More 3. Microsoft to offer Teams separately from Office: After years of bundling Teams with Office, Microsoft is moving to "introduce a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription service that excludes" the corporate chat service. Slack and Teams' other rivals will likely cheer the move, but this far into Teams' life, it seems that the bundling effort has already done its work... Read More Morning Must Reads AT&T resets account passcodes after data leak: AT&T is resetting millions of consumer passcodes that were dumped online after TechCrunch informed the company that the "the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts." This is the first time that AT&T has acknowledged that the leaked data belongs to its customers, Zack Whittaker reports... Read More Google Podcasts will soon be no more: Google wants users to swap their podcast subscriptions over to Yahoo Music. With the imminent demise of Google Podcasts, users that don't make the move before the company's eponymous podcasting service shuts down won't be able to access their subscriptions on the platform after its expiration date. Equitylisteners who use Google Podcasts, you know what to do! Read More Would a TikTok ban boost Amazon? Many online retailers have been looking to leverage TikTok's reach to fuel their e-commerce business as an alternative to Amazon, but those dreams could be dashed if the U.S. Senate decides to approve the forced divestiture of TikTok's U.S. business. That could mean Amazon and other big marketplaces stand to benefit from the move... Read More Iron Sheepdog is the best startup name I've seen in ages: I love it! And the name's not random, as the startup works in the short-haul trucking industry. Iron is a metal, just like what trucks are made out of, and sheepdogs move stuff around nearby, like sheep. So, it all makes sense (at least to Monday Morning Alex). The company just raised $10 million... Read More Ember set sights on new horizons: Many people mocked Ember when it said it was releasing an expensive thermos. Then it sold more than 3 million units. Well done! Now, the company is taking its tech into an entirely new field: a temperature-controlled device for storing and transporting sensitive medications... Read More Women in AI: TechCrunch's long-running series on women in the AI realm continued this weekend: We interviewed Kate Devlin of King's College, and Brandie Nonnecke of UC Berkeley... Read More A MESSAGE FROM TECHCRUNCH The TechCrunch AM Auction Opens Today More than a quarter of a million users start their weekdays with TechCrunch AM. Want to talk to this engaged audience? TechCrunch's auction for Q3 and Q4 inventory opens today Monday, April 1. Email newsletter.auction@techcrunch.com for more information and to submit your bid.  Submit Your Bid Around the Web 1. Is AI hype out-shouting AI progress? The FT has a fascinating interview with British AI expert Demis Hassabis about the state of AI today. Turns out, the progress of the tech is often drowned out by AI companies shouting about the tech and the money they're raising... Read More 2. Apple flexes podcasting might: If you want a promo in the top spots of Apple's podcast app, the best way to get featured might be to participate in Apple's subscription service, Semafor reports... Read More 3. Video game movies are big business: That's the takeaway from this WSJ report, which notes that movies based on video games earned more than $700 million at the U.S. box office last year... Read More A MESSAGE FROM BRAINDATE Braindate powers connections at TechCrunch Early Stage Are you ready to network at TechCrunch Early Stage this year? Braindate is thrilled to be powering connections at the event. More than your typical networking tool, Braindate turns events into knowledge-sharing feasts! Braindate fosters knowledge-sharing conversations among people at events, communities, and organizations. Learn from your peers and meet new people based on shared interests! Learn about Braindate Before You Go News you can (sadly) use: An intrepid team of researchers at MIT have come up with a tool that lets you see how many days you can spend outside safely as the planet heats up. You can see how things will pan out from now till the year 2100, so here's hoping things get better soon, because for people in, say, Texas, they don't look very good... Read More Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Got a tip? tips@techcrunch.com Question about our events? events@techcrunch.com Want to advertise on TechCrunch.com? advertise@techcrunch.com Interested in sponsoring live events? sponsors@techcrunch.com Update your preferences here at any time Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA Privacy Policy