Opera builds ChatGPT into its sidebar

Opera adds a ChatGPT powered tool to the sidebar that generates short summaries of web pages and articles. The feature, dubbed “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft is doing with Edge. As shown in a demo included in Opera’s blog post, you … Read more

Global VC firm Partech reaches first slot of largest African fund at €245 million • TheTechWarrior

Subscribe here to get a roundup of TheTechWarrior’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3PM PST. How are you, Crunchy readers! True crime has gripped us all, and Lorenzo‘s review of “Tracers in the Dark” is fascinating. In the book, the author discusses how the police go after cybercriminals, … Read more

Internal posts: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 a month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 a month for each connected account (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The information: Internal posts: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 a month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 a month for each connected account– Twitter will likely charge brands $1000 per month to keep their gold verification badge, plus $50 per month for each connected account…

ESA tackles space debris problem with ‘angel wings’ for satellites

As futuristic as this sounds, space real estate is booming. Major corporations and scientific research organizations are actively competing to send satellites into orbit for extraordinary reasons — developing a free Internet connection; improving GPS systems; climate change monitoring; even analyzing Albert Einstein’s trippy general relativity equations. But as humanity continues to advance technologically, experts … Read more

AI text watermarks and freeze eggs

So the team behind a new decision-making tool hopes it will help clear up some misconceptions surrounding the procedure — and give prospective parents some much-needed insight into the true costs, benefits, and potential pitfalls. Read the full story. —Jessica Hamzelou This story comes from The Checkup, MIT The Tech Warrior’s weekly newsletter that gives … Read more

Earth begs you to accept smaller EV batteries

Humanity may not exactly be winning the battle to avert climate change, but the electrification of cars is starting to look like a success story. Ten percent of new passenger cars sold around the world last year were electric, powered by batteries rather than gasoline. Yet that revolution has its own dirty side. If the … Read more