Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action
This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. Becca Monaghan / indy100 : Elon Musk has dropped the Trump feud for now - he's falling out with another CEO instead Forbes : Elon Musk Says...
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her”
Apple Called Out By Jon Stewart For Blocking FTC Chair Lina Khan's Interview The Daily Show on YouTube : Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show American Economic Liberties Project : ...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
what a shame! I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever. In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...
Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn't work; Beeper makes the service free
Bug fixes and other improvements — We've created an updated version … Anurag Singh / Dexerto : Android iMessage app releases new update to sidestep Apple block Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines :...
A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance
A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitter: @lutherlowe . Threads: @imdavid...
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxroy , @can , @mparekh...
A look at Eric Schmidt's push to profit from an AI cold war between the US and China; CB Insights: Schmidt took part in investing $2B+ in AI-focused companies
both to democracy and to his own interests. https://www.protocol.com/... Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : Schmidt's story is an exploration of how a private sector tech mogul has planted the seeds of Ch...
Current and former Google employees say the company's HR routinely offers mental health counseling and medical leave when staff complain about racism and sexism
and even participate in it.” Oh I feel this in my bones. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tiffani Ashley Bell / @tiffani : I read this this morning and I had to put it down for a sec when I saw how people ...
Interviews show Google automating mental health ads has boosted big firms and sidelined independent therapists, forcing them to spend more or face irrelevancy
The company's push into health care is a case study in how tech giants dominate small businesses. And the U.S. government may have something to say about that. Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @lutherlowe , @mh...
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature amid “PR” fears
it took someone pouring through their Facebook data dump to unwind the mystery that Facebook was logging their texts and calls, so Android app was at fault. Unbelievable shadiness from Facebook from d...