LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue
April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it's not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.”
Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm
As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …
GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches
General Motors' electric future doesn't include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. — The automaker's upcoming lineup …
Twitter code behind For You tracked authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group
Musk said he had no idea it was doing that! — Twitter has just released …
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global
The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.
Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials' accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks
The White House will not pay to have its staff's official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios.
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for Blue, but Semafor and other small outlets plan to
'If You Know Me I Ain't Paying' Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : News outlets respond to Twitter Blue coercion with a resounding 'meh.'Twitter is removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts to...
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution
The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on being careful with Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models, regulation, and more
“Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."
Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLM models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon”
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Google confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug
The new file limit means you can't actually use the storage you buy from Google. — “Please delete 2 million files to continue using your Google Drive account.”
Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”
The Privacy Layer for ChatGPT — Safely leverage ChatGPT for your business without compromising privacy. John Hendel / Politico : 5 questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson Adaeze Uche / MakeUseOf : Why...
Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches
The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year. — The U.S. government sold 9,861.17 bitcoin …
The UK's CAT said that Apple won an appeal against the CMA's decision to investigate the company's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming
By a decision dated 22 November 2022 entitled Mobile browsers and cloud gaming … PYMNTS.com : UK Antitrust Investigation of Apple Stopped After Appeal Win Jason Aycock / Seeking Alpha : Apple wins UK ...
Binance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD it moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX's collapse, in its corporate wallets
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022
🌾 Regenerative agriculture and carbon farming offer … Andreas Bernstrom : Well done everyone at Agreena, incredible progress and incredible mission. Since Kinnevik's first investment a year ago, the ...
How GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen abandoned the company's e-commerce push to refocus on its ~4.4K stores, leading to GameStop's first profit in two years
Videogame retailer, the original meme stock, hits brakes on e-commerce push to refocus on its 4,400 bricks-and-mortar locations LinkedIn: Dana Mattioli and Victor Elmann Tweets: @gunjanjs , @ritholtz ...
Sources: ByteDance had revenues of $80B+ in 2022, up 30% YoY, after growing 70% between 2020 and 2021; TikTok represented ~12% of total ByteDance revenue
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, generated more than $80 billion in annual revenue last year, up more than 30% from roughly $60 billion in 2021 … Tweets: @anthony Tweets: Anthony DeRosa / @anth...
Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA
Josh Sisco / Politico :
Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India's most valuable startup Byju's from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy's valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Roblox plans to hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint in April 2022 against the company
Jeffrey Rousseau / GamesIndustry.biz :
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