A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.
Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling
I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests. My takeaways: — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing
Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it.
A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017
What we're covering — Justice Gorsuch is still under the weather — Justice Neil Gorsuch remains ill and will be absent from the courtroom …
Microsoft plans to bring its Xbox PC games to Nvidia GeForce Now and promises to offer Activision Blizzard games on the cloud service if the acquisition closes
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today …
Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site's ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week
He keeps laying people off anyway. — Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week …
TSMC staff express doubts over the company's decision to build a $40B factory in Arizona, arguing the project distracts from R&D, showing TSMC's tricky position
Employee doubts are rising about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's $40 billion investment in an Arizona factory.
Microsoft appears to be injecting ads for Edge on a Google.com website when users download Chrome using the latest Edge Canary preview on Windows
Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing. Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggrieve ad …
Microsoft releases an updated Bing app on iOS and Android in preview, adds chatbot support to Edge on mobile and Skype, and says 64% of searches are on mobile
Microsoft just expanded the new Bing to Android, iOS, Edge mobile, and Skype. — What you need to know
Securities lawyers say the SEC may struggle to win a lawsuit over stablecoins, such as Paxos' BUSD, because owners do not expect profits, part of the Howey test
Agency investigates whether the cryptocurrencies' issuance violated investor-protection laws — Washington's battle to rein in crypto has a new front: stablecoins.
Ahead of its Stream On event, Spotify launches an AI-powered feature called DJ, offering curated music and spoken commentary in a “stunningly realistic voice”
Ahead of Spotify's upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates …
Meta releases Quest v50, adding Direct Touch, an experimental setting letting users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via pinch gestures
Hand tracking on Meta's Quest VR headsets is about to get better. With the new v50 update, you'll be able to …
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox
The FTC will not challenge Amazon's $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare; Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the deal has closed
The Federal Trade Commission won't challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. …
Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company's hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs
The Facebook parent company plans to push some leaders into lower-level roles, flattening layers of management at the social media giant
The SEC has now issued dozens of enforcement actions to crypto companies, moves critics say let the agency shape crypto without a direct system of regulations
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
A profile of Alexis Ohanian, a Reddit co-founder, Serena Williams' husband, and early investor in Coinbase and ETH, who owns 700+ NFTs and raised $500M in 2022
Alexis Ohanian's ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized.
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories from people who only care about “making a quick buck”
Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized chatbots over misinformation
State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government ‘misinformation’ — HONG KONG — Regulators …
Two years after announcing its HiFi lossless music service, Spotify has yet to launch the new tier, offering no new information and falling behind rivals
At this point, it's fair to assume that something went wrong with Spotify HiFi. Two years ago today, during the company's Stream On event … Tweets: @cambridgeaudio and @chriswelch Tweets: @cambridgea...
Medical device company AliveCor, which accused Apple of patent infringement, claims Biden upheld an ITC ruling that could result in an Apple Watch import ban
President Biden has upheld an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that could result in an import ban on the Apple Watch …
Google claims a breakthrough in correcting errors inherent to quantum computers, related to how qubits retain information, by spreading the data across qubits
Company's latest research could signal a step towards overcoming one hurdle to the technology — Google has claimed a breakthrough …
Q&A with David Wakeling of Allen & Overy, one of world's largest law firms, on using OpenAI-developed generative AI tool Harvey to write legal documents
Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. What could go wrong? Tweets: @robertjbateman , @carnage4life , @stokel , and @gteninbaum Tweets: Robert Bateman ...
Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 75% YoY to $629M, vs. $590M est., a $557M net loss, and 8.3M monthly transacting users, vs. 8.22M est. and down from 8.5M in Q3
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
Uber launches a redesigned version of its app globally, including adding a simpler homescreen, a Services tab, and live tracking on iOS 16
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates are turning to legislation at state level to bolster online privacy, including in Illinois and NY
Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories. Mastodon: @alng@journa.host . Tweets: @jduballreports , @kyleschmauch , @alf...
A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database without a password for two weeks that had years' worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info
Google Cloud partners with the Tezos Foundation to act as a validator on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, seeking to help clients develop and deploy apps
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
Amazon expands its partnership with OpenAI-rival Hugging Face, which plans to build its next-gen LLM on AWS and have Amazon offer its tools to AWS customers
our collaboration will make large language models more accessible, easy to train and deploy, and cost-efficient for developers. #AWS #LLMs https://huggingface.co/... Thanks: @jeffboudier
Tome, which uses AI to help build pitch decks, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a $300M valuation, up from $175M in 2021 and claims over 1M users
Now valued at $300 million while still pre-revenue, per a source, Tome says it's the fastest productivity software maker to ever reach 1 million users since its September release.
A look at Amazon India's miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription
If the e-commerce giant cracks the ad-free, shop-as-you-watch code in the country, nothing stops it from rolling miniTV out internationally. Tweets: @nilchristopher and @nilchristopher Tweets: Nilesh ...
Berkeley study: researchers identified VR users with 94%+ accuracy using 100 seconds of motion data, after analyzing anonymized data of 50K+ Beat Saber players
Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat :
Turkey's telecom watchdog BTK blocks Eksi Sozluk, one of the country's biggest social media websites, after blocking Twitter following the recent earthquakes
Bloomberg :
Finch, which helps companies connect to HR apps, services, and systems, raised a $40M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and Menlo, taking its funding to $68M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to ~$4.8B, beating estimates, net income up 189% YoY to ~$718M, iQiyi revenue up 3% YoY to ~$1.1B, and a $5B share buyback
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Google rolls out a redesigned YouTube Music radio station feature, letting users pick up to 30 artists, apply mood filters, and tune parameters after creation
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget :
Source and memo: Max Cutler, Spotify's head of audio talk shows and partnerships who oversaw deals with creators like Joe Rogan, is leaving to start a company
NYC-based Chaos Labs, which offers automated, on-chain risk management for DeFi protocols, raised a $20M seed led by Galaxy Digital and PayPal Ventures
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk :
Sydney-based DataMesh, which offers a payment processing system that ostensibly adapts to existing systems used by banks and merchants, raised a $30M Series A
PYMNTS.com :
Leaked documents detail how shadowy cybersecurity company S2T sells surveillance tools to clients with a track record of spying on journalists and dissidents
Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories : Tweets: @phineasjfr Tweets: Phineas James / @phineasjfr : Re: our new scoop & #India. Scanning the leaked brochure, you can see the #OSINT tool - at least in de...
Berlin-based Pliant, which offers a B2B corporate credit card service that integrates with accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment
Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider :
The US and the EU accuse China of using its legal system to subvert foreign IP rights and help local companies in industries Beijing deems important, like tech
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @preddy85 and @markc_anderson Tweets: T. Prashant Reddy / @preddy85 : Fascinating reporting on American companies complainining about Chinese courts being biased against...
Sources: the US DOJ's Public Integrity Section is probing possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates, implying more indictments
The Department of Justice's elite Public Integrity Section is probing the Sam Bankman-Fried matter as the DOJ's campaign-finance investigation expands. Read on @PuckNews to learn why there was recentl...
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