Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act
OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week …
AGs from Washington DC and 48 US states file a lawsuit against Avid Telecom, accusing the firm of making 7.5B+ robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry
Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls …
Source: Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs for software handling high-traffic services, including live-audio, weeks before Ron DeSantis' glitchy Spaces event
On Wednesday night, Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida …
Sources: Elon Musk cut the Twitter Spaces team, which once numbered as many as 100 employees, down to roughly three people over the past several months
How a decimated team and shrinking server capacity rained on Ron DeSantis' parade — Programming note: Platformer will be off Monday for Memorial Day.
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary EU pact to combat online disinformation and adds Twitter's “obligations remain”
Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.
The popularity of H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others has pushed Nvidia's market value toward $1T
High demand for US group's H100 processors helps send its market value skyrocketing towards $1tn
A California jury finds Google's products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold
Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company's smart speaker patent.
Brazilian lawmakers file a complaint against Google for letting users download “Slavery Simulator” game on Google Play for about a month before taking it down
For about a month, Google Play users in Brazil could download a game that simulated what the South American nation looked …
Microsoft makes Azure Linux, a container host OS for the Azure Kubernetes Service, generally available, after running it in public preview since October 2022
Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers — After using Azure Linux internally for two years and running …
Amazon backs out of its pledge to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030 and says it plans to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040
- Amazon scrapped its Shipment Zero initiative, which was announced a few years ago. — The company is rolling the goal into a broader Climate Pledge.
German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues
and Vice Versa Fred Lambert / Electrek : Tesla Files: Insider dropped 100 Gb of data on German media outlet Tweets: @marxistrealism : Tesla whistle-blower revealing that the company hides accident rep...
YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content
Twitter won the equivalent race to see who could best copy live audio from Clubhouse. … Tweets: Andrew / @ibxtoycat : Honestly, a good thing - Community posts and shorts cover everything you'd probabl...
In a policy reversal, a Portuguese government document outlines rationale for banning Huawei equipment in the country's 5G network, deeming it “high risk”
and do physical damage Msmash / Slashdot : Portugal Effectively Bans Chinese Companies From 5G Network Paul Lipscombe / DatacenterDynamics : Portugal gov't could ban Huawei from country's 5G network B...
Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M
The median gain in Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia stocks is 43% since January, almost 5x the S&P 500, bolstered by AI optimism
Rarely does a tech-powered stock rally come along that isn't pilloried for the fragility of its foundation. Tweets: @jimpethokoukis Tweets: James Pethokoukis / @jimpethokoukis : “Thanks to a blockbust...
Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing
Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) …
Bluesky rolls out a “custom feeds” feature that lets users subscribe to different algorithms and make their own for others to use; most are not chronological
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Paris-based Sekoia, a platform for the real-time detection of cyberattacks, raised a $35M Series A from Banque des Territoires, Bright Pixel, and BNP Paribas
Vignesh R. / Silicon Canals :
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook
and the online chaos that's expected to ensue — just months away” https://www.cnbc.com/... John Oberlin / @omgno2trump : Beware of social media: they would rather have more $Billions than an honest sa...
The UK CMA says Meta offered to limit use of other businesses' ad data for Facebook Marketplace, which the regulator thinks addresses its competition concerns
Sources: the US SEC's record $279M whistleblower award in May 2023 stemmed from Ericsson pleading guilty to breaching a $1.1B settlement in a 2019 bribery case
Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal :
France's CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day
Bloomberg :
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more
Wired : Tweets: @laurengoode and @wired Tweets: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : This was such a fun - and enlightening - episode. I also tested @glichfield on his ability to spot AI music and let's jus...
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