EP-72 Title: Searchgpt Launch 🚀, Gig Economy Win in Ca 🎉, Gemini Ai Upgrade by Google 🤖

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for friday, july 26! dive into today's top tech stories:

• openai enters search market: introduction of searchgpt, an ai-powered search engine that organizes and makes sense of information, powered by gpt-4. features include follow-up questions, sidebar links, and ai-generated visual answers, with partnerships for clear attribution.
• california gig economy decision: uber, lyft, and doordash secure a major victory as the state's supreme court upholds proposition 22, allowing gig workers to remain independent contractors, providing flexibility but falling short of full employee benefits.
• google gemini ai chatbot upgrade: upgrade to gemini 1.5 flash ai model enhances response times, reasoning, and image understanding, with an expanded context window of up to 32k tokens. available in the free version on web and mobile, with added links to related content for fact-seeking.
• dexcom stock drop: shares plunge nearly 40% post-disappointing q2 revenue and weak future guidance. ceo attributes shortfall to sales team restructuring and fewer new customers, with a new over-the-counter cgm called stelo set to launch in august.
• whatsapp milestone in the u.s.: meta ceo mark zuckerberg announces whatsapp surpasses 100 million monthly active users in the u.s., boosted by marketing efforts and emphasizing privacy and end-to-end encryption. globally, over 2 billion active users, with the largest base in india.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!