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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

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OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. Google has been found to prioritize its own services in Search by, for example, answering a travel query with data from Google Places instead of a richer, more social source like TripAdvisor.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

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The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features

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million Series A announced in October 2020. Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. The Sydney, Australia-based startup’s last round was a $10.7

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Video: TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020

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Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

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But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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Video: TechCrunch editors choose their top stories of 2020

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Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Darrell Etherington: SpaceX had a tremendous 2020, realizing a lot of things that they’d been working on for years.

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