OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Amazon to receive incentives of $1.5B+ over ten years based on creating 25K jobs in Queens, but politicians object, with some saying they will fight the deal
On the west side of Manhattan … Lydia DePillis / CNN : Ocasio-Cortez breaks with Cuomo and de Blasio on Amazon welcome Jeff Jeffrey / Silicon Valley Business Journal : The Amazon effect: Losing cities...
Apple says it has never found malicious chips in its servers, calls Bloomberg reporters' claims unsubstantiated and untrue, says it is not under a gag order
Separating Legit Cryptocurrency Ideas From the Ponzi Schemes William White / InvestorPlace : Friday Apple Rumors: UK Backs Up Apple's Claim About China Hack Bloomberg : How China Used a Tiny Chip to I...
Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony says Facebook dealt with several Russian threats, including from APT28, before the 2016 US election
here are the tough questions we'd ask WRAL TechWire : Was your data harvested? Facebook begins alerting affected users David Meyer / Fortune : Facebook Co-Founder Says It's ‘Shocking’ the Company Didn...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...