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Tech Across the Globe

Apple chatbot: The iPhone maker, which has fallen behind rivals in integrating artificial intelligence into its products, has developed a ChatGPT-like app to help test and prepare for a long-anticipated overhaul of Siri, coming next year.

Cloud tax probe: German investigators carried out raids in support of a probe of Northern Data, a Frankfurt-listed firm backed by stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings. At issue is the question of whether the company, now an AI computing provider, mined Bitcoin at its Sweden site, which would be subject to a higher rate of tax.

BYD struggles in Japan: China’s biggest EV maker has struggled to break through in Japan and is now resorting to discounts to stoke interest in the home of Honda and Toyota.

Revalued

Uber sees its grocery and retail deliveries growing faster than previously expected, as it works to compete with the likes of Amazon and Instacart. The company expects non-restaurant deliveries to hit an annual run rate of $12.5 billion in gross bookings by the end of 2025.

Must Read

The new ChatGPT Pulse is OpenAI’s take on the classic challenge of creating a landing page for the internet. Everyone from AOL to Yahoo to Google Now has endeavored to build a personalized portal to the web, so how will OpenAI stand out? Naturally, the company leans heavily into AI and the learnings about a user that it gains from interactions over time. Austin Carr tried Pulse and found it to be a good start. Read his full analysis in today’s Tech In Depth essay.

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This Week in Game On

Over the past few years, the video game industry has faced a tough economic environment during which companies have let go of thousands of employees in the face of little growth. One problem stands above the rest — there are too many video games, Jason Schreier writes in this week’s Game On. And many of those titles, particularly digital games, never get discovered and, as a result, find few players, he writes.

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