Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year”
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B
Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
Simple searches show that Etsy, despite its anti-porn policy, lists AI-generated porn for sale; Etsy removed deepfake porn of 55+ celebs after being notified
a company worth nearly $10B — is still full of a ton of AI-generated porn. My latest for @forbes. https://www.forbes.com/...
The US SEC charges SafeMoon and its executives for selling unregistered crypto securities and misappropriating investors' funds the team promised were “locked”
https://lnkd.in/dgfMTj9n Freddy M. : This is not #Crypto. This is #Criminal, and a major reason why people don't understand what we're all building here. 🤦🏽♂️ … Nicholas Schmidt ...
Court filing: Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein reach a plea deal over allegedly laundering billions in cryptocurrency from Bitfinex's 2016 hack
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A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Masto...
Q&A with Grimes, who invited anyone to make Grimes songs using AI tools, on “open-sourcing” her voice, her obsession with AI, and five GrimesAI-created tracks
the producer and pop singer who has long been enthralled with visions of the future — sees opportunity. https://www.nytimes.com/... @cfarivar : “We were going through my old colleg...
After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use
If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation. — The AI Drake track …
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality
an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality
Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run! — SVB
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet
In an email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk gives an ultimatum: commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter by 5pm ET on Thursday or leave with three months severance
It comes as Musk's first major feature, Twitter Blue Verified, was halted while the company probes issues that arose from its launch.
Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet
Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @violazhouyi , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See als...
An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes . Thanks: @rashishrivast18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: @forbes : A Forbes investigation found rampant sexual predation on Wattpad, a s...
An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering
The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist. They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins. Tweets: @kaileyl...
Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports
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