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...
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg.com/... Parker Orto...
Apple's Mother Nature skit at the Wonderlust event was awkward, but every fact or position put forth is a strategic, money-saving, and innovative effort
about how much innovation goes into optimizing hardware at scale for a challenge like carbon neutrality. Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : I'm intrigued by Apple disclosing they are shipping more finished g...
Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format
Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform's longer-form videos Threads: @dhowell . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @neilcybart See also Mediagazer Threads: Deni...
Influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands, such as Surfshark
Sophie Fullerton is a political scientist and human rights researcher based in New York. — Last November, around the same … Tweets: @florida_sophia , @philklay , @neilcybart , @doylech , @florida_so...
How the peer pressure to be a part of the blue bubble iMessage text groups keeps US teens locked into Apple's ecosystem
Good morning! Have you heard of Mukesh Ambani, the hotelier? Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Google executive accuses Apple of using peer pressure and bullying to sell iPhones Jeff Butts / HotHardware.c...
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues inside the Apple Park vacuum while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market. Tweets: @evacide , @matthew_d_green , @timsweeneyepic , @neilcybart , @...
Tim Cook's claim in an internal email that the banned app in Hong Kong “was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence” doesn't add up
not to smash things, not to attack the police, but simply to get around Hong Kong without running into a road filled with tear gas or blocked by protesters. https://twitter.com/... Ian Brown / @1br0wn...
Spotify users who pre-save albums are granting record labels like Sony Music broad access to their accounts and data, the extent of which is often obscured
the worst offender being Sony Music — have asked for an excessive amount of permissions, when it only requires a single permission to pre-save an album. Why haven't you noticed? Spotify hides the actu...
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us
and gets personal James Sanders / TechRepublic : Apple revokes Facebook's ability to deploy apps internally amid privacy scandal dispute Gordon Kelly / Forbes : Apple's New iPhones Have An Expensive P...