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.
Canva has crafted a wildly successful business model on the idea that graphic design should be accessible to everyone.
Canva is in 190 countries and over 100 languages, and has signed on more than 170 million active users.
“We’ve concentrated a huge amount on having really international, localized, authentic content,” Adams said.
All of that authentic local experience has been crucial to our international growth.
And international growth has been the story of Canva.”Canva’s top market is the U.S., and Adams said that’s closely followed by Brazil and India.
The Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 are on sale at Apple brick and mortar locations starting today and will hit the company’s online store tomorrow.
Apple notes, “We are thrilled to return the full Apple Watch lineup to customers in time for the new year.
A day after an Apple Watch import ban went into effect in the U.S., an appeals court has instituted a pause.
However, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 remain unavailable on the company’s site nearly a week after initially being pulled.
Masimo has also accused Apple of poaching Masimo employees to build the blood oxygen sensor, which first arrived in 2020 with the Watch Series 6.
Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy.
Tetragon is the company’s open source security visibility component.
Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of security and collaboration at Cisco said that it is essential for companies to work together where security is concerned.
And we need to make sure that we stay open in this market and co-innovate, and I think open source is probably one of the best models to co-innovate with,” Patel said.
Cisco has been extremely acquisitive this year with this representing the 11th acquisition by the company, the fifth related to security.
Micromobility.com, formerly Helbiz, was delisted from the Nasdaq on Monday as a result of the company’s noncompliance with the stock exchange’s listing rules, according to a regulatory filing.
Competitor Bird — the only other shared micromobility company to brave the public markets — was also delisted from the stock exchange in September.
The company’s stock has struggled to remain in compliance since going public via special purpose acquisition merger in 2021.
In March, the company issued a reverse stock split to bring the price back into compliance, the gains from which didn’t last long.
The company’s stock closed Monday at $0.44.
VF Corporation, the U.S.-based owner of apparel brands including Vans, Supreme, and The North Face, has confirmed a cyberattack has impacted the company’s ability to fulfill orders ahead of Christmas, one of the biggest retail events of the year.
When reached by email, VF Corp. spokesperson Colin Wheeler provided TechCrunch with a statement that echoed the company’s filing with regulators.
In its regulatory filing, VF Corp. warned that the cyberattack would have a “material impact” on its business until its systems are recovered.
VF Corp disclosed the incident on the same day that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new data breach disclosure rules came into force.
This regulation means that organizations must report cybersecurity incidents, including data breaches, to the federal government’s securities regulator within four business days.
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