Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, and Le Monde, to provide real-time answers in its Meta AI chatbot
Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc. …
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”
www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives. And also, becaus...
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler
This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
USA Today publisher Gannett sues Google over an alleged ad tech monopoly, echoing the DOJ's arguments and saying audiences have grown but ad spending is down
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Sources: Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since agreeing to buy the company in April, discussing potential layoffs, moderation, and more
here's why. Shalini Nagarajan / Blockworks : Elon Musk Teases Crypto Integration At His First Twitter All-Hands Abhishek Mishra / Fossbytes : Elon Musk's First Meeting With Twitter Employees Transcrip...
NY State launches first US “vaccine passport” app, Excelsior Pass, built on IBM's blockchain-based health pass platform, to be used initially at large venues
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Facebook said a “configuration change” caused some users to be logged out of their apps on Saturday morning; issue is now fixed
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Redbox launches ad-supported Free Live TV, which offers a curated set of movies and TV shows organized into channels, from brands like TMZ, USA Today, NowThis
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A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation's black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016
ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids learn math. Tweets: @jguynn , @carnage4life , @nmsanchez , @usatoday , @geoffdun...