Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff
In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness …
Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements
After the news broke yesterday - on a Friday afternoon, no less … Lloyd Coombes / iMore : Apple's biggest iOS 18 and macOS features, including Apple intelligence, won't come to the EU this year becaus...
Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media
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Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple
The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence
An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more
How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. … Anne Aaron just can't help herself. Threads: @rafaelcaricio . Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im . X: @g...
Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO
Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled
A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. X: @blockheartben and @ameliargh LinkedIn: John Ellis ...
A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU
The Apple Vision Pro has gotten off to a slow start, spurring management to rethink its plans for the device.
Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices
Another way to promote AI PCs. — When Qualcomm formally introduced its Snapdragon X Elite platforms at Computex earlier this month …
How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021
Sweden has led the way in Europe in going cashless, but fast and easy digital commerce have left consumers and the state vulnerable to fraud. X: @business and @chrishreiter X: @business : Sweden's bee...
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers
* what we do is highly technical, you don't understand — * it wasn't us it was a third party service/contractor/vendor — https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @bsmall2@mstdn.jp : Automated Plagiarism f...
How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies
developed at Fish Labs —sequel to Guerrilla, which played 100 years after it —more open-ended play experience —after the cancellation, Fishlabs were told to layoff the team. — https://www.rockpap...
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
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X plans to make the ability to create live streams a premium feature, making it the only major social platform to charge for the feature
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A look at Switzerland's push to lead the global race to tokenize assets, as officials try to change perceptions around its diminished banking industry
- Central bank has extended its digital currency pilot project — Digital bond issuance settled in CBDC has reached 755m francs X: @zurikosan . LinkedIn: Allegra Catelli X: @zurikosan : “The lack of d...
OpenAI buys Rockset, an enterprise search and analytics startup that raised $105M, integrating both the tech and staff of an acquisition for the first time
OpenAI acquires Rockset To Power the AI-Driven Future OpenAI : OpenAI acquires Rockset Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : OpenAI Acquires Rockset to Boost Data Analytics Reuters : OpenAI buys database...
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : US government sanctions twelve Kaspersky Lab executives The Hacker News : U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kas...
A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other companies to make their chatbots funnier and keep users engaged with them at home and at work
Anthropic, xAI and other artificial intelligence companies see humor as an important feature for their services.
Despite a $3T+ valuation, Nvidia remains a little-known brand outside gaming and tech industries due to the speed of its ascent and lack of consumer contact
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand.
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants
“In Omaha, where Google and Meta recently set up sprawling data center operations, a coal plant that was supposed to go offline in 2022 will now be operational through at least 2026. The local utilit...
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books
https://www.techdirt.com/... Kevin Carson / @KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social : Copyright Nazis strike again: — If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at t...
Research: the number of freelance jobs on platforms like Upwork, in areas where generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21% since ChatGPT's debut
The more a job is strictly about writing about a known topic or creating art, the more likely it is replaceable by generative AI. … X: Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve : WSJ: Impact of genAI on freelance work L...
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more
Dylan Martin / CRN : X: @dylanonchips , @techepiphanyyt , @dylanonchips , and @dylanonchips X: @dylanonchips : I recently talked to top @AMD data center exec Forrest Norrod about the company's decisi...
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