Apple's Subscription Service Setback

Apple says Meta is getting annoying. You can now call 1800CHATGPT to, you know, talk to ChatGPT. Apple scraps plans for a hardware subscription package. Oura’s big new raise also indicates how well its smart-ring business is going. And has Bengaluru grown to quickly for its own good?

Links:

• Apple hits out at Meta's numerous interoperability requests (Reuters)
• OpenAI makes ChatGPT available for phone calls and texts (CNBC)
• Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service (Bloomberg)
• Smart ring start-up Ōura raises $200mn as valuation leaps to $5.2bn (Financial Times)
• Oura closes $200M round, bringing its valuation to $5.2B (TechCrunch)
• 3 Changes That Would Make Samsung's Galaxy Ring So Much Better (CNET)
• PS5 Pro deep dive reaction: GPU and RT improvements, PSSR and Sony's new AMD Amethyst partnership (EuroGamer)
• Inside India's 'Silicon Valley' (BusinessInsider)

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