Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant
The State's Latest AI Infrastructure Seth Bodine / Houston Business Journal : Google to invest $40 billion in Texas data centers Newsmax : Google to Invest $40B in Data Centers in Texas Lana Ferguson ...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Ben Werdmuller / @benwerd : For better or worse, these changes will be a major accelerant for decentralization. Protocols don't host. https://www.protocol.com/... Chris...
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Mark Warner / @markwarner : The SAFE TECH Act doesn't interfere with free speech - it's about allowing these platforms to finally be held accountable for harmful, often...
Claiming they're censored by Twitter and Facebook, some conservatives say they're moving to alternatives like Parler, which has 8M users, up from 4.5M last week
Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax.
From election night onwards, Twitter and Facebook have continued to label inaccurate election posts from Trump, his campaign staff, and others
who ran “Stop the Steal PAC.” https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Trump's tweets keep getting flagged for including misleading information. So it looks like he's just repurposing them...
Facebook's new promoted content rules block some ads from Vice, Newsmax, others, classifying ads as political and requiring advertiser verification via mail
Russell Brandom / The Verge :