StubHub aims to go public by late summer, Sam Altman pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

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StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021. - Link

Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers. - Link

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts. - Link

OpenTable plans to display members' first names and profile photos on all reviews, including past reviews, starting May 22 in a bid to provide more transparency. - Link

Meta releases OpenEQA, a benchmark to measure an AI agent's understanding of physical spaces by probing it with questions about the environment. - Link

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