Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach. As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it...
Sources: JP Morgan is frustrated with Techstars over missteps in deploying the JPMorgan-backed $80M fund, aimed at helping underrepresented founders, since 2022
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : X: @joebreider , @azharthegreat , @techcrunch , @techcrunch , @brianbrackeen , @janelleany , @likemych , @tanichambers , @aviel , @dominicmadori , and @azharthegre...
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more
Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser …
California's DMV suspends Cruise's deployment and driverless testing permits, ending the GM self-driving car subsidiary's robotaxi operations in San Francisco
DMV: “The video footage presented to the department ended with the AV initial stop following the hard-braking 'maneuver. … @transbay@sfba.social : A phrase that I never thought I'd write: DMV FTW. — ...
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech
Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult. Tweets: @2plus2make5 , @parismarx , @davidzipper , @garymarcus , @noahgoodall , and @iih...
A look at how China is pushing dozens of regulations and technical standards to wrest control of the entire internet ecosystem from the West
Xi Jinping wants to wrest control of global cyber governance from the market economies of the west. — It's never been a worse time to be a Chinese telecom company in America. Tweets: @handrewschwart...
Judge finds “reasonable basis” for fraud in Uber's outsourced investigation of plaintiffs and lawyers who sued CEO Kalanick over surge pricing anti-trust issues
When a young labor lawyer named Andrew Schmidt first filed suit against Uber in December of last year, he couldn't have predicted it would make him a target. Tweets: @sarahcuda . Thanks: @cauchon Twee...