The Roundup
Everything you missed this past week on Product Hunt: Top products, spicy community discourse, key trends on the site, and long-form pieces we’ve recently published.
🍎 Apple faces a $1.8 billion fine for apparently breaking EU competition laws.
📱 We might be getting an iPhone SE 4, according to these CAD leaks.
🐦 Ex-Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal is suing Elon Musk.
🗣️ ChatGPT can now read its answers to you out loud.
📹 Two Deepmind alums just dropped a text-to-video AI modal.
⛔ The US Congress may vote to force Bytedance to sell TikTok or be banned.
🐦 X is now allowing Premium+ users and organizations to publish articles.
🧑⚖️ Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman over a “betrayal.”
📹 X has added a live video function to spaces.
🚗 Ford is giving away free Tesla charger adaptors to EV users until July.
📔 Google is bringing Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini.
💻 Lenovo has revealed the first-ever laptop with a fully transparent display.
🚗 The Apple Car is no more after the company decided to wind down its efforts.
🕹️ If you’ve got a Vision Pro, you can play a GameBoy on it.
🖼️ Google has paused Gemini’s image generation ability after complaints.
💰 Reddit filed to go public and is inviting its most active members to invest.
💬 Bluesky has opened up federation — allowing anyone to run a server.
🌑 We’re back on the moon after the first commercial moon landing was a success.
🖼️ Stability AI has launched Stable Diffusion 3, its most powerful image generator yet.
📹 OpenAI announced a new text-to-video AI model.
👓 An ex-Apple exec launched a pair of AI-powered glasses.
🛡 Google announced an AI cyber-defense initiative.
🤖 Amazon claims its LLM is starting to show “emergent abilities.”
🟧 YC has put out a call for companies in AI, spatial computing, and more.
🚀 Space X successfully launched a lunar lander into space.
🍎 Some Vision Pro users are returning the headset, citing comfort and cost.
🚙 After 15 years, Uber finally turned a profit.
🏢 Adam Neumann wants to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy.
👓 Pokémon Go creators + ex-Apple execs announced new AI glasses.
👾 Google’s most capable LLM is here + RIP "Bard." It's just Gemini now.
🖼️ DALL-E 3 will automatically watermark AI images, according to OpenAI.
💰 Reddit is rumored to IPO – with a valuation of at least $5 billion.
🏡 Mark Zuckerberg is apparently building a doomsday bunker in Hawaii.
💸 Amazon has opted to drop the $1.4 billion deal to acquire iRobot.
🎵 Universal Music Group is planning to pull its song catalog from TikTok.
🧠 Elon’s brain-tech company, Neuralink, has installed its first implant.
🍎 Apple has already sold over 200,000 units of the Vision Pro.
🚗 Tesla is working on a new crossover car – with a more budget-friendly price.
🍎 Apple is reportedly building an EV, but its launch has been pushed back.
📷 Meta is rolling out more safety measures to protect teens on its platforms.
🌐 Google Chrome is getting new AI features in the browser's latest update.
💰Meta passed $1 trillion in market cap after stock came close to hitting $400.
📰 Artifact, the news-sharing platform founded by an Instagram co-founder, is shutting down.
🧵 Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users on its platform by year-end.
🍎 Apple has made a big change to its app store guidelines.
🤖 A robot has learned how to cook, clean, and do your laundry.
📱 Samsung announced a new range of smartphones with AI built in.
🤖 Microsoft is planning to auto-launch its Copilot on some Windows devices.
🛍️ Google Cloud is rolling out gen AI features specifically for retailers.
🔋 Microsoft has discovered a new battery material – thanks to AI.
🤖 Quora has raised $75m from a16z to grow its AI chatbot Poe.
📹 Elon Musk is now claiming that X will be a video-first platform.
