Wed. 04/30 – ChatGPT Just Wants To Please
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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Meta has launched a standalone competitor to ChatGPT. But is ChatGPT bending too far backwards in an attempt to please you? Even OpenAI thinks so. Waymo and Toyota cut a deal. And concerns about sovereign tech stacks rear their head again.
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- Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI (The Verge)
- Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’ (TechCrunch)
- Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles (CNBC)
- Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year (TechCrunch)
- EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race (Politico)
- Microsoft vows to protect European operations from Donald Trump (Financial Times)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme Right Home for Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, Mata has launched a standalone competitor to ChatGPT. |
| 0:12.0 | But is ChatGPT bending too far backwards in an attempt to please you? |
| 0:17.0 | Even Open AI thinks so. |
| 0:19.0 | Waymo and Toyota cut a deal and concerns about sovereign tech stacks rear their head again. |
| 0:24.9 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.7 | Meta has launched a direct chat GPT competitor, and of course it has social stuff built in. |
| 0:39.0 | The meta-AI app is a standalone app featuring a Discover feed where users can see |
| 0:43.8 | AI interactions that friends have chosen to share. Quoting the verge, |
| 0:48.2 | meta-standalone chat GPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant. |
| 0:52.3 | You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. |
| 0:56.6 | The biggest new idea in the meta-AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. |
| 1:02.2 | Here you'll see a feed of interactions with meta-a-i that other people, including your friends on Instagram and Facebook, have opted to share on a prompt-by-prompt basis. |
| 1:12.6 | You can like, comment on, |
| 1:19.6 | share, or remix these shared AI posts into your own. The idea is to demystify AI and show people what they can do with it, Meta's VP of product, Connor Hayes tells me. It may seem obvious that |
| 1:24.6 | meta is the first to add a social component to its AI assistant. |
| 1:29.2 | It definitely won't be the last, though. |
| 1:32.4 | Across the industry, AI chatbots and social media are converging. |
| 1:35.7 | Elon Musk's X has already integrated closely with GROC. |
| 1:39.4 | Open AI, meanwhile, is planning to add a social feed to ChatGPT. |
| 1:42.7 | The Meta AI app puts voice mode at the forefront, |
| 1:45.0 | an opt-in beta version makes Meta's AI voice more conversational, like ChatGPT's advanced voice mode, though Meta's version |
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