OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g.
In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPTs are compliant before they’re eligible for listing in the store — aptly called the GPT Store.
GPTs don’t require coding experience and can be as simple or complex as a developer wishes.
GPT Store launching next week – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/I6mkZKtgZG — Manish Singh (@refsrc) January 4, 2024Developers can simply type the capabilities they want their GPT to offer in plain language and OpenAI’s GPT-building tool, GPT Builder, will attempt to make an AI-powered chatbot to perform those.
Since shortly after DevDay, developers have been able to make and share GPTs with others via the ChatGPT website directly but not publicly list them.
EUR wallets also come with bank details, which means that Zing customers can receive SEPA payments to their EUR wallet directly.
When it comes to sending money, Zing supports dozens of currencies — more currencies than the ten I listed above.
When you convert GBP to EUR, Zing charges 0.6% in exchange fees.
Plus accounts can exchange up to £3,000 per month without exchange fees.
Premium, Metal and Ultra customers don’t pay exchange fees, but they pay £7.99 to £45 per month in subscription fees.
You may be looking to switch out your current budgeting app for a better one, or perhaps you’re someone who has traditionally relied on spreadsheets.
For individuals, a good budgeting app can help you save money by creating and sticking to a monthly budget.
For startups and small businesses, a good budgeting app can help you understand your company’s financial health and make informed decisions.
Best apps for startups and small businessesFreshBooksFreshBooks is a simple tool that can help startups and small businesses create a budget and stick to it.
Although it’s marketed as a personal budgeting app, Toshl can be a good tool for new startups looking to understand and manage their finances for a fraction of the cost of budgeting apps marketed toward small businesses.
Audiobooks.com offers a 30 day free trial that comes with three free audiobooks.
The platform lets you download titles for offline reading and listening, and allows you access titles across four devices.
Spotify has started giving Premium members 15 hours of free audiobook listening every month.
Many best sellers fall under 15 hours, which means you can enjoy a free audiobook every month.
Libro.fmLibro.fm is an interesting audiobook app because it lets you buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstores.
As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on some of our favorite apps that made everyday life a little easier this year.
While flashy new AI apps and rival social networks were grabbing headlines, sometimes the most useful innovations fly under the radar.
The apps on our best-of list may not have arrived in 2023, but they became daily staples that streamlined our work or brought small moments of joy.
PSPlay makes it easy — it’s Remote Play on the go, as advertised.
Beyond that, it delivers features that Sony’s official Remote Play app doesn’t, like support for third-party controllers, picture-in-picture mode and screen capture — making it well worth the $5.99 price.
Beeper is giving up on its mission to bring iMessage to Android after implementing a series of fixes that Apple has knocked down one by one over the past month.
The latest workaround requires users to own or rent a jailbroken iPhone to get iMessage working via Beeper.
You then need to install a Beeper tool to generate an iMessage registration code, then update to the latest Beeper Mini app and enter your code.
The process is quite complicated and significantly takes away from the original appeal of Beeper, which was supposed to provide an easy way to bring iMessage to Android.
Although Beeper is done trying to bring iMessage to Android, the company says it’s “shifting focus back to our long-term goal of building the best chat app on earth” in the new year.
Spill, a platform founded by ex-Twitter employees, is closing out its first year on the market by opening up its beta to all users, whether they’re on iOS or Android.
Spill is like the polar opposite of X, a platform that continues to alienate users with platform policies that make the app actively less inclusive.
Around his one-year anniversary of being laid off from Twitter, Spill CEO Alphonzo Terrell told TechCrunch that the app has amassed around 200,000 users.
Spill may not be growing as quickly as other Twitter competitors like Bluesky, Mastodon or Threads, but Terrell isn’t worried.
“People are looking for something new,” Terrell told TechCrunch last month.
Telegram and Line, two of the world’s most popular messengers with hundreds of millions of monthly users, have both been integrating crypto features in recent months.
Backed by all three divisions of Sequoia — Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital India and Sequoia Capital China (now called HongShan), Singapore-based EthSign aims to provide a web3 equivalent of DocuSign with the promise of an additional layer of transparency and trustworthiness.
EthSign is deployed on the respective blockchain network that runs on Telegram and Line, TON and Finschia.
EthSign has already rolled out on Telegram as a mini app, which can notify users of a list of pending documents to approve.
Already live on Line as a web app, EthSign has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finschia for further integration in the coming months.
Google announced today that it will pay $700 million as a part of a settlement with the U.S. Attorney General for a lawsuit over Google Play Store.
Third-party app stores and side-loadingFor at least seven years, Google will support app installs on Android outside of Google Play through different ways including third-party app stores.
Google won’t force developers to launch their apps at the same time or earlier on the Google Play for at least four years.
Plus, Google can’t stop them from displaying fees linked with Google Play or Google Play’s billing system.
OEM clausesGoogle can’t enter a deal with phone makers to have Google Play as the exclusive app store on devices to place Google Play on the home screen for at least five years.
And it’s going to look really familiar to former users of Zenly as Amo’s third app is a location-sharing app — just like Zenly.
With its second app Capture, Amo is creating a social camera app.
Amo’s new app, Location, is probably the easiest one to describe and understand.
Brought to you by the original team behind location-sharing app Zenly.
•… pic.twitter.com/y8uIRAINQG — amo (@amoamoamo) December 19, 2023Location is both a utility app and a social app.
