Twitter's former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel sue Elon Musk over allegedly $128M+ in unpaid severance and Musk's claim he had cause to fire them
with program advice from Cisco and Salesforce Ryan Dinsdale / IGN : Elon Musk and X/Twitter Sued for $128 Million Over Alleged Unpaid Severance Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Former Twitter/X executives sue ...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search
here's why Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Websites can choose to opt out of Google Bard and future AI models Vallari Sanzgiri / MediaNama : Here's how web publishers can opt out of Google crawlers scrapi...
Dropbox plans to lay off 16% of its staff, or ~500 employees; CEO Drew Houston blames slowing growth and because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived”
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news … Emma Roth / The Verge : Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Dropbox blames AI and the eco...
A study of 1,063 US adults' YouTube browsing experience shows the site is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of the viewer's ideology
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Amazon sues Washington state's Department of Labor & Industries, claiming an order forcing the company to reduce a warehouse's hazards breaks the 14th Amendment
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The White House releases a “comprehensive framework” for US crypto regulation, outlining various federal agencies' recommendations after six months of study
here's what's in it The White House : Statement by NEC Director Brian Deese and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Digital Assets Framework Terence Zimwara / Bitcoin News : White House Release...
Using aerial photos and AI software developed by Google and Capgemini, French tax authorities identify 20,356 unregistered pools, leading to ~€10M more in taxes
and tax them Katyanna Quach / The Register : AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m France 24 : France taxman deploys AI spy to spot hidden swimming pools Tweets: @goo...
Amazon plans to acquire primary health care provider One Medical, which offers in-person, digital, and virtual services, for about $3.9B in an all-cash deal
Amazon is buying One Medical, the so-called “Netflix of primary care,” for $3.9 billion. Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Amazon might own your doctor's office after latest acquisition Bloomberg : Ama...
A former investment manager sues Celsius for fraud, saying the crypto lender ran a Ponzi scheme by using customer deposits to rig the price of its crypto token
I've been recovering from COVID over the last two weeks and have had some time to reflect … Katyanna Quach / The Register : Now-frozen crypto-lending biz Celsius accused of devolving into a Ponzi sche...