A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet
Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.
OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper
App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh
Sources: Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data
The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology
New York City Public Schools lifts its ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI models, and will now support educators and students to learn about and explore AI
After a cautious start, our approach to AI technology is evolving. — As Chancellor of the nation's largest school system …
A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more
A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p
Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube
The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean. But innovation is relentless …
Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399
Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs. This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will debut next week …
In a letter to Satya Nadella, Twitter accuses Microsoft of violating an agreement over the use of the social network's data and declining to pay for that usage
In a letter to Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.
The UK plans to invest up to £1B over the next decade in its semiconductor industry; the US had pledged $52B and the EU €43B for their respective chip sectors
While the US and EU announce bigger programmes, one British startup says the government's investment figure is less than the cost of one basic plant
Hyundai agrees to pay a settlement of $200M to ~9M US Hyundai and Kia owners, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok
Most of the money from the settlement will go toward compensating theft victims. — Hyundai is putting a relatively quick end …
Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review to replace Google with Bing as the default search engine on its mobile devices, citing market perception concerns
Samsung Electronics suspends internal review that contemplated changing its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing
Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment
WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
A look at Apple's Personal Voice, an accessibility feature that lets ALS patients digitize their voices through an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, set to release in 2023
Among the many challenges people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face is its impact on their speech.
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer its TV channel as a subscription streaming service by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals
essentially a private sector income tax on almost every household, divided generously among media cos. Bye! https://www.wsj.com/... Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers : Massive and long-anticipated development...
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions
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Sources and docs: Midwest nonprofit Veritas Society used geofenced data to serve abortion clinic visitors anti-abortion ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat
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Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Jeff Jordan, the a16z VC who joined in 2011, steps back from active investments but will continue to work with his existing portfolio and board positions
Longtime Andreessen Horowitz venture capitalist Jeff Jordan is stepping back from active investments.
A look at Sightful's Spacetop, an Android laptop with an AR headset for a 100" virtual display in lieu of a screen, available to 1,000 early adopters for $2,000
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Krafton receives a “trial approval” for three months from Indian authorities to relaunch battle-royale game BGMI, a year after it was banned
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A look at AmpereOne, Ampere's new third-generation data center CPU, the company's first to use an in-house architecture, and its disingenuous performance claims
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A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends that the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling and not a financial service
Summary So-called “cryptoassets” span a wide and rapidly evolving range … Ledger Insights : UK Parliament's Treasury Committee wants crypto regulated as gambling Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4lif...
Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024
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Source: Instacart had ad revenue of about $740M in 2022, up 30% from 2021; nearly 30% of Instacart's 2022 revenue came from selling ads
Instacart has become an advertising powerhouse. — The grocery-delivery firm's ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year, up 30% from 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. Linke...
Sources: Lagos-based Sabi, which provides a marketplace, inventory management tools, and more to Africa's SMEs, raised a $38M Series B at a $300M valuation
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more
Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app] Tweets: @liahaberman , @marvelle , @smacula , @michaelguimarin , @martinsfp , ...
Restaurant365, which builds software for restaurant accounting, analytics, and more, raised $135M led by KKR and L Catterton, taking its total funding to $288M
https://techcrunch.com/... Kevin Beach : Great way to start the National Restaurant Association conference... This ramen photo makes me hungry! — https://techcrunch.com/...
Tejay Fletcher, the mastermind behind phone number spoofing service iSpoof, which scammed victims out of ~£100M, is sentenced to over 13 years in a UK prison
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg :
YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads in top-performing videos on TVs and says 150M+ unique US viewers watched YouTube or YouTube TV on TVs in December 2022
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Fertility tracking app Premom settles with the FTC and state AGs for $200K over allegedly sharing sensitive user information with third parties without consent
A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients' data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse
Sam Tobin / Reuters :
Indian data analytics company Course5 Intelligence raised $28M in funding led by 360 ONE Asset Management at a valuation of $250M-$275M
Vibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia :
Austin-based brain-computer interface company Paradromics raised a $33M Series A and says it achieved an FDA designation that offers an expedited review process
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
Instawork, a marketplace matching hourly workers with employers, raised a $60M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $760M, bringing its total funding to $160M
Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a more than two-year partisan deadlock if the Senate confirms her
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