xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging their deal to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's OSes stifles competition and that Apple favors OpenAI in its App Store rankings
in their great past. @elonmusk is right to do this. [image] Bluesky: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Can Musk sue his way to the top of the App Store? I asked Stanford Law Prof. @marklemley.bsky.social...
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban
The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can claim extraordinary powe...
Q&A with former FTC commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, who Trump fired, likely illegally, on Meta, fighting for privacy, and bribes in the US
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Bluesky: @jasonpaul and @reckless . X: @nancyscola Bluesky: Jason Paul / @jasonpaul : Gratuities. Nilay Patel / @reckless : Look there are a lot of other tech and biz podcas...
ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the US law that could ban TikTok on January 19; when asked about the law, Trump says he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok
Small business owners love TikTok for marketing and sales. Stella Martorana / Research Live : TikTok appeals to supreme court against US ban Fox Business : TikTok calls on Supreme Court to issue emerg...
The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta “chose to buy” instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Facebook lawsuit delivers on FTC chair Lina Khan's progressive agenda Josh Sisco / Politico : Antitrust agency ta...
Q&A with law professor Tonya Evans on the relationship between legal frameworks and crypto, including copyright and NFTs, contract law and DAOs, and more
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Prior to the 60 Minutes interview, Nick Clegg posted an internal memo saying the whistleblower would accuse Facebook of relaxing election safeguards too soon
Yeah, about those annotations Facebook provided... https://www.nytimes.com/... Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat : A plea before the whistleblower speaks tonight: don't fall for Facebook's playbook of c...
A fair reading of the Epic vs. Apple injunction suggests that Apple needs to allow third-party payment methods in the app and not just links to ones on the web
it specified buttons and external links, which means they are presumed to be distinct. So a button can't just be an external link that kicks you to Safari.” - good read by @reckless https://www.thev...
In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow
but not until at least 2023 Transparency Center : Counting strikes — If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Facebook's two-year Trum...
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable
No, I don't want to gloat, but it's mind-boggling what happened yesterday … Malathi NayakBloomberg / Al Jazeera : US judge grills Apple's Tim Cook in final minutes of Epic trial Michael Simon / Macwor...