Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits
Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; source: Cursor maker Anysphere hired two of Claude Code's leaders
What's notable is that Cursor just poached the lead engineer and PM for Claude Code. I guess this is now an industry trend. Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Anthropic is a...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely tellin...
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support
disrupting essential work for #WordPress users, agencies, freelancers, and plugin developers. Please read: https://wpenginestatus.com/... Brian Gardner / @bgardner : My heart is br...
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support
WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …
Sources detail the Apple Vision Pro's extensive in-store sales process, including a fitting, calibration, and an employee-guided demo lasting up to 25 minutes
The company is preparing an extensive sales pitch for the $3,499 device, including a demo lasting as long as 25 minutes.
Substack plans to remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content
Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42”
Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 42 this week, a tragedy that rattled fans …
X added five-second delays, some now removed, on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Musk attacks
The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news
The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn't be involved in news-gathering, reporters said
Source: Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs for software handling high-traffic services, including live-audio, weeks before Ron DeSantis' glitchy Spaces event
On Wednesday night, Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida …
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @sam...
Sources: Google released Bard despite staff concerns; one employee called the chatbot “a pathological liar” and one said its answers may cause “injury or death”
Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool.
Twitter quietly altered its hateful conduct policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including prohibiting “misgendering or deadnaming”
Twitter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for its transgender users …
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent
The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
In a reversal, Twitter lets users like, retweet, and reply to tweets with Substack links, but searches with “Substack” still just give results for “newsletter”
In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users …