Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 is an “impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price” and OpenAI “will pull up some releases”
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek's R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster
Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. Masto...
OpenAI quietly removed a ban on “military and warfare” use from its usage policy, as part of a major rewrite to make the policy “clearer” and “more readable”
OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology …
The FTC Chair calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more
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The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition
CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
Many current and former Amazon executives, showrunners, and agents say Amazon Studios is confusing and frustrating; one showrunner says Studios has “no vision”
Despite ambitious bets like ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and the upcoming ‘Citadel,’ insiders complain that there's still …
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself
OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? — In 2013, workers at a German …
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself
OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? — In 2013, workers at a German …
The FTC proposes a rule banning non-compete clauses, saying the contracts harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship
the latest move in Lina Khan's ambitious reform agenda. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Imagine you hate your job. The pay is low. The benefits are crummy...
Analysis: Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close to $5B due to its growing losses; his stake in the Vision Fund 2 is worthless, down from $2.8B in 2021
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Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network
Amazon's newest effort to normalize its surveillance network will feature footage from Ring surveillance cameras and commentary from comedian Wanda Sykes.
[Thread] Via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes
1. Hello. Amazon today announced it would pay $1.7 billion to acquire iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum. It may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in...
Google employees, kept in the dark about firm's sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestine
Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Tweets: @timnitgebru , @amnestytech , @jathansadowski , and @samfbiddle Tweets: Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru : “documents indicate that the new cloud w...
In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more
Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, leaving them vulnerable during the downturn
Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn — The widespread losses caused by the cryptocurrency crash are even broader among black investors. Tweets: ...
Documents: Coinbase sold its intelligence-gathering tool Coinbase Tracer to ICE, letting the agency track bitcoin, ether, tether, and other crypto transactions
Sam Biddle / The Intercept :
Masayoshi Son used SoftBank's Vision Fund to build a society mediated by AI, but failed as he invested in firms with exploitative technology, not explorative
propped up Uber, Adam Neumann, and too many others with billions of dollars in easy money — and Ed's the guy to write about it. https://twitter.com/... Meghna Jayanth / @betterthem...
Study claims the implementation of EU's GDPR has reduced the number of apps on Google Play by a third, increased costs, and reduced revenues for app developers
Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes — Europe's data protection regime has reduced … Source: NBER .
The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K
Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. Source: OpenSea .