After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Docs: Verily revenue grew to $470M in the first nine months of 2022, up from $228M YoY, making it Alphabet's biggest subsidiary by revenue after Google
Jon Victor / The Information : Tweets: @brianmcc and @amir Tweets: Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : Narrative violation. That narrative being: what if sometimes the moonshots and other bets actually wo...
Jokr, a rapid grocery delivery service in the US and Latin America, raises a $260M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, five months after raising a $170M Series A
Christine Hall / TechCrunch : Tweets: @brianmcc and @kevinroose Tweets: Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : I literally say on the show today, this space seems to be endless right now in terms of capacity...
Brian McCullough on the Internet History Podcast and Techmeme Ride Home: the start, turning a personal podcast into a business, plans for a Ride Home franchise
Simon Owens / The Business of Content : Tweets: @simonowens Tweets: Simon Owens / @simonowens : Since 2005, Techmeme's been one of the most influential tech news sites on the internet. Now it has a d...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
As Facebook and Google start using Wikipedia to combat fake news and conspiracy theories, Wikimedia Foundation says companies should do more to support the site
If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation Tweets: @brianmcc Tweets: Brian M...
Techmeme announces Techmeme Ride Home podcast hosted by Internet History Podcast's Brian McCullough, summarizing tech news every weekday at 5pm ET
It's hosted by Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast. — The favorite website of many a techie is jumping on the podcasting bandwagon.
How Google's political influence has waned: loss of Obama administration insiders, Eric Schmidt's bet on Hillary Clinton in 2016, rising unease with monopolies
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Tweets: @brianmcc , @binarybits , and @binarybits Tweets: Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : The ways that Google has become Microsoft, and then begat (beginning?) Faceboo...