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Elon Musk's “Tesla Bot” is a distraction and an empty promise, considering the progress of Boston Dynamics' Atlas, which has been in development for 10+ years
A distraction and an empty promise — After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI …
A California superior court judge rules that Prop 22 is unconstitutional because it infringes on the Legislature's power to set workplace standards
A California judge on Friday ruled that a 2020 ballot measure exempting rideshare and food delivery drivers from a state labor law …
OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1
Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines
The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.
A look at Afghanistan's burgeoning crypto scene, which Chainalysis ranked 20th globally in overall crypto adoption in 2021, after ranking among lowest last year
- For many Afghans, this week has laid bare the worst-case scenario for a country running on legacy financial rails … Tweets: @castaneda_dfo , @apompliano , @mattrosoff , @kenziesigalos , @anthony , @...
Chainalysis: global cryptocurrency adoption grew 881% YoY, led by Vietnam, India, and Pakistan, according to metrics such as P2P exchange trading volume
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC : Source: Chainalysis Blog .
Emails show Facebook quashed a Q1 content transparency report fearing public criticism, as the most viewed link implied a doctor died from the COVID vaccine
The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released …
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company
Google is reportedly dismantling its health technology initiative and splitting its projects across other teams as the chief of the division departs the company.Source:Insider.
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years
The billionaire entrepreneur matched the heights of America's tech legends but failed to heed warnings that Chinese leader Xi Jinping still called the shots Tweets: @dilipthecherian , @jingyanghk , @n...
Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts
Otavio Camargo's luck had run out, a few times. Working as a mover for the startup Lugg, the cargo van he relied on for work was stolen. Tweets: @willysolis357 , @sfchronicle , @coworkerfund , @chase...
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Automattic's recent funding news, which outlined a $288M primary round, buybacks, and an internal liquidity market for staff
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: the FBI's warning to startups, OnlyFans pulls a Tumblr and inside Automattic's unusual funding and buyback rounds. Tweets: @bizcarson Tweets: Biz Carson / @b...
FTC's updated suit against Facebook incorrectly claims that Facebook has driven up ad prices via monopoly control over the personal social networking market
the only two “no” votes against bringing an antitrust action against Facebook were the two GOP commissioners. Despite all their bluster, Republicans love Big Tech. https://twitter.com/... @hurricap : ...
Critics fear the new IT rules in India, where the internet is dominated by US digital platforms, give the government even more power to stomp out dissent
For more than 30 years, Manjul, who goes by his first name only, has skewered leaders from every Indian government … Tweets: @evelyndouek , @pranavdixit , and @kateconger Tweets: Evelyn Douek / @evely...
Q&A with Nick Shenkin, an SF-based FBI special agent, on warning big tech companies about economic espionage and IP theft by Russian and Chinese spies and more
Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @silvermanjacob , @foundingadvisor , and @caseyebabb Tweets: Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : This is very interesting but: Don't trust the FBI; the problem of Chin...
A consortium including Nordic Capital and Insight Partners to buy and take private Inovalon, which makes software for analyzing healthcare data, for $6.41B
Mrinalika Roy / Reuters : Source: GlobeNewswire News Room .
Profile of Thomas Templeton, an Apple hardware veteran building a bitcoin wallet for Square, and how he photographs retail countertops to inform product design
Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol Tweets: @protocol : The Square executive leading Jack Dorsey's big plan for a bitcoin wallet is a veteran hardware technologist with a quirky hobby: t...
CEO of South Korea's online retail giant Coupang is facing renewed criticism about working conditions after a fire damaged one of its main fulfillment centers
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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