In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about the ingestion prior ...
A preview of the Gonzalez v. Google case at the SCOTUS and a look at the Israeli nonprofit law center Shurat HaDin opposing YouTube at a hearing on February 21
Back around 2010 (ish), some folks at Facebook conducted an experiment to see if they could influence people's behavior by altering what is in their feeds. … Dan York / @danyork@mastodon.social : This...
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kate Kozuch / Tom's Gui...
Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to let users “browse, display, and interact with NFTs” on select premium 2022 TVs
what you need to know Gemini / PR Newswire : Nifty Gateway Partners with Samsung Electronics to Develop an Industry-First Smart TV NFT Platform Aaron Chow / HYPEBEAST : Samsung Integrates Nifty Gatewa...
Sony reveals the PlayStation VR2's design: lighter, with a lens adjustment dial, new vent layout, and similar white-and-black color scheme
how Sony is tackling the most annoying VR headset issue Mathew Olson / The Information : Sony's PlayStation VR2 Headset Design Sports New Comfort Features Michael Gariffo / ZDNet : Sony reveals first ...
A look at Lyft and Uber's foray into the est. $3B non-emergency medical transportation business, where everyday drivers take patients to and from appointments
Within the first week that Austin Correll was driving for Lyft in the fall of 2021, he was sent to pick up passengers at an address that turned out to be for a hospital. Tweets: @johnlegere Tweets: Jo...
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency
Qubit Finance Team @iucounu : Hackers stole £80m from a corruptocurrency bank and the bank is offering them £250k to return it. I dunno guys https://twitter.com/... @whipplemarc : Cryptocurrency is a ...
Reddit raises $410M+ led by Fidelity Investments at a $10B+ valuation, up from $6B six months ago when it raised $250M; the new round could reach ~$700M
and certainly Instagram. Kanyi Maqubela / @km : I remember some people side-eyeing us for participating in this @Reddit round in 2013. https://redditblog.com/... Welp :) https://www.theverge.com/... @...
Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all and adds client-side encryption for data on Workspace
nicely, this time—what a disservice Google's blog posts were to the products it was trying to launch today. This is not an effective way to communicate. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/......
Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta
Easily create and share raps — iPhone Screenshots Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Facebook's new app Bars will let you rap over premade beats Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Facebook BARS App Let...