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Epic Games today officially launched a rival app for iOS in the European Union, marking the first time Apple’s own App Store has had to face a serious rival. The Epic Games Store will initially offer Epic’s games, including Fortnite, for users to download onto their iPhones, with plans to start onboarding third-party developers’ games beginning December, Wired reported. The
Meta’s X rival Threads announced a number of new features today, including the ability to store multiple drafts, a way to rearrange columns on the desktop and insights into the user’s audience.
The latest edition of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok debuted a new image generation tool on Wednesday that lacked most of the safety guardrails that have become standard within the artificial intelligence industry, The Guardian reported.
I’m not saying I prefer talking to Google’s Gemini Live over a real human. But I’m not not saying that either, Joanna Stern reported on The Wall Street Journal.
Apple has threatened to remove creator platform Patreon from the App Store if creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system for Patreon’s subscriptions, TechCrunch reported. In a blog post and email to Patreon creators about upcoming changes to memberships in the iOS app, the company says it’s begun
Elon Musk has big plans for his startup xAI. A key part: using other companies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The billionaire’s year-old artificial-intelligence bet is relying on talent, data, and hardware from his other businesses to help it develop what he has said will become the most powerful AI in the world by December. So far, xAI has
A former Twitter board member, Omid Kordestani, sued the social media company owned by Elon Musk on Friday, claiming that the billionaire refused to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares, The New York Times reported. Mr. Kordestani, who joined Twitter’s board in 2015 and helped oversee the sale of the company to Mr. Musk in 2022, received