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Steve Faktor

@ideafaktory
19 posts
2025-10-26
Suno is great. It can probably write every future Imagine Dragons or Taylor Swift song. But I imagine lawyers at every major record label are strategizing and salivating to nail their IP infractions. OpenAI's advantage in this space is the ability to hide its tracks on IP theft. [image]
2025-10-26 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks

OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …

2025-10-25
Suno is great. It can probably write every future Imagine Dragons or Taylor Swift song. But I imagine lawyers at every major record label are strategizing and salivating to nail their IP infractions. OpenAI's advantage in this space is the ability to hide its tracks on IP theft. [image]
2025-10-25 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks

OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …

2025-02-11
Irrelevant. Unless countries are prepared to regulate access to compute capacity or what organizations can adopt what models (they're not), AI acceleration will continue unabated.
2025-02-11 View on X
BBC

The US and the UK refuse to join France, China, India, and 57 other countries in signing the international agreement in Paris promoting “transparent”, “safe” AI

The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris.

Irrelevant. Unless countries are prepared to regulate access to compute capacity or what organizations can adopt what models (they're not), AI acceleration will continue unabated.
2025-02-11 View on X
Reuters

Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship”

U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation …

2024-01-27
Apple's self-serving response to EU regulations. Regulators are consistently outsmarted by corporations, or cause them to pull back services, hurting consumers. It also underscores Europe's lack of tech innovation & total reliance on foreign companies. https://twitter.com/...
2024-01-27 View on X
The Platform Law Blog

Apple's changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show its disdain for both the DMA and app developers

Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").

2024-01-11
This standalone pricing will be unsustainable for ChatGPT as new AI competitors arise and AI gets baked into existing tools.
2024-01-11 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI debuts a GPT Store for paid users to share and find custom chatbots and plans to start sharing revenue in Q1; users have already made 3M+ chatbots so far

https://techcrunch.com/...  #AI #technology #OpenAI #marketplace #appstore X: Sam Altman / @sama : (there are incredibly useful GPTs in the store, but probably ‘everything is waifu...

This standalone pricing will be unsustainable for ChatGPT as new AI competitors arise and AI gets baked into existing tools.
2024-01-11 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Team, a new subscription plan for teams of up to 149 people, for $30 per user per month, or $25 per user per month billed annually

OpenAI is launching a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot, aimed at smaller, self-service-oriented teams.

2023-03-07
From a competitive standpoint, I get rushing to implement AI, but giving this error-prone beta software unrestricted access to customer data is a risk management nightmare. Those EULAs will be a mile long. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-07 View on X
CNBC

Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI to Customer 360, Slack, Tableau, and its other products using data from its Data Cloud

- Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.

2023-01-18
Anyone else seeing a giant loophole opening? “All our stuff comes from India!” ¹ https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country

Bloomberg :

Anyone else seeing a giant loophole opening? “All our stuff comes from India!” ¹ https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-18 View on X
Financial Times

As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more

The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America's biggest geopolitical rival.  But is diversification even possible?

2023-01-13
The solution to AI cheating is a B2B (B2E, B2G) extortion service that scans submitted papers for AI fingerprints. Give away the service, monetize its fallout. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-13 View on X
New York Times

Banning ChatGPT in schools will be hard, so teachers should treat ChatGPT like a calculator: assume students are using it unless they are physically supervised

OpenAI's new chat bot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.

2022-02-15
@Techmeme @NexusBen This is the end of the world's most lethargic war. And Samsung surrendered to Google, rightly. https://stevefaktor.com/mule/ https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-15 View on X
9to5Google

Samsung has adopted Google Messages as its default messaging app in the US, starting with the Galaxy S22 series

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :

2021-12-14
👆👆 Same goes for autonomous vehicles. Covid shows that ceding control to regulated, connected vehicles we likely don't own, creates leverage that can (and likely will) be used for compliance enforcement. #future #futurism https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-14 View on X
Los Angeles Times

A look at a “smart city” project near Busan, as the South Korean government normalizes surveillance by repurposing its “smart city” systems to battle COVID-19

Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @ideafaktory , @niklaskossow , @margotroosevelt , @timonpoint , @thorstenbenner , @latimes , and @vicjkim Tweets: Steve Faktor / @ideafa...

2021-09-22
Is the success of FanDuel, DraftKings & fantasy sports a proxy for gambling addiction? Or is it harmless escapism? Would love to see the stats on users...and their spouses. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-22 View on X
Bloomberg

How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bw and @ideafaktory Tweets: @bw : FanDuel has nabbed a 42% share of U.S. sports wagers in June, up from 35% only two months earlier http...

2021-09-01
I like the B2B customer service angle. Services like Hootsuite & Yodlee do cross-platform aggregation. Problem is they're at the mercy of 3rd parties that can limit access anytime, have competing products, or can charge a fortune. Don't love these kinds of proxy businesses. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-01 View on X
SiliconANGLE

Trengo, which streamlines emails, social media, WhatsApp messages, and calls into a collaborative inbox, raises $36M Series A led by Insight Partners and Peak

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :

2021-01-14
Political narratives exist entirely outside of political advertising - in news bias, search algorithms, corporate campaigns, activism, etc. Advertising is less relevant, if only slightly more overt. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-14 View on X
CNBC

Google says it will pause political ads, and those referencing “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the US Capitol” on all its platforms starting Jan. 14

2020-10-21
Aside from having a CEO whose name sounds like a fish that dances cabaret, there are 2 red flags about Signal, the private messaging app: all the permissions it requires & lack of decentralization. Through the app is open source, what happens on the server is unknown. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-21 View on X
New Yorker

Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use

we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone nu...

2020-06-25
If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times, Amazon needs its own police department and paramilitary unit to handle overseas disputes. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-25 View on X
GeekWire

Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit, made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators, and data analysts, to fight counterfeiters on its site

Amazon has formed an internal “Counterfeit Crimes Unit” to bolster its fight against knock-off products on Amazon.com, as the company seeks to show customers …

2019-11-14
Razor is what Motorola executives will be using to slash their wrists if they don't find a way to lower the price below $700 or 800. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-14 View on X
The Verge

Motorola announces a new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell, launching in January on Verizon in the US for $1,500

The Razr returns  —  The Razr is back, but now it's an Android smartphone that can fold in half.  Motorola has officially announced its much-rumored …