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Tech Across the Globe

Senior riders: Uber debuted a new streamlined ridesharing app aimed at older adults, hoping to get a greater portion of a large market. Rival Lyft quickly followed, saying its simplified app for seniors will be available beginning in a few days.

Spy recruitment: The US Central Intelligence Agency is using videos on social media networks like Elon Musk’s X to try to recruit Chinese officials to provide information about the government.

Harrods hack: The London luxury department store reported an attempted cyberattack, just days after two other UK retailers said they were hacked. Harrods said it rebuffed the attack.

Revalued

Dream Games, the maker of the Royal Match smartphone game, has raised about $2.5 billion in debt and equity. The deal, which will make private equity firm CVC Capital Partners its sole equity investor, values the Turkish company at $5 billion — almost double the $2.75 billion valuation in 2022.

Must Read

Quarterly results from Amazon and Apple showed Big Tech isn’t immune to US tariffs, Brody Ford reports in today’s Tech In Depth. Big tech companies, particularly those that sell actual goods to consumers, are more at risk than those such as Microsoft and Google that provide digital services to businesses, he writes. But they, too, may soon feel the pain if the trade war spurs an economic downturn. For more of Bloomberg’s coverage of the technology industry, subscribe here.

This Week in Q&AI

OpenAI learned that in the world of AI chabots, there is such a thing as too nice, Shirin Ghaffary reports in this week’s Q&AI. Users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT complained that the last updates to its GPT-4o model has made the chatbot overly fawning and disingenuous — risking that it would encourage someone’s worst impulses, she writes. For more of Bloomberg’s coverage of artificial intelligence, subscribe here.

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