2025-09-28
How a ‘nudify’ site turned a group of friends into key figures in a fight against AI-generated porn - this story, months-long in the making, explores the legal quagmire surrounding nonconsensual deepfakes and the deep, trauma experienced by victims. https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims
In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life.
2023-08-31
Interesting to note that Meta said that Llama 2 wasn't trained on Meta user data - and that the company “has not launched any Generative AI consumer features on our systems yet.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that the company uses for generative AI training
- Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models.
2023-06-17
One big problem: If users delete content or archives in an act of protest, as one Reddit moderator told CNBC some are considering, “there's nothing there anymore.”
The Verge
Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more
One big problem: If users delete content or archives in an act of protest, as one Reddit moderator told CNBC some are considering, “there's nothing there anymore.”
NBC News
Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
2022-12-29
Metaverse off to ominous start after VR headset sales shrank in 2022 - next year looks to be tough as “consumer budgets will be tightening” https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD: US annual sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
2022-10-13
Zuckerberg throwing shade on Apple: “Philosophically, we've always been about building in the open, we'd rather show the progress we're making and talk about the challenges we're still working through. We don't have all the answers, because some of them just don't exist yet.”
The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg touting an “open, interoperable metaverse” stands at odds with Meta using corporate partnerships and case-by-case permissions to build it
Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone. That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta …
2022-10-12
Zuckerberg throwing shade on Apple: “Philosophically, we've always been about building in the open, we'd rather show the progress we're making and talk about the challenges we're still working through. We don't have all the answers, because some of them just don't exist yet.”
The Verge
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, mixed reality, the Microsoft partnership, metaverse plans, TikTok, BeReal, the Discovery Engine approach, and more
The Verge :
Zuckerberg throwing shade on Apple: “Philosophically, we've always been about building in the open, we'd rather show the progress we're making and talk about the challenges we're still working through. We don't have all the answers, because some of them just don't exist yet.”
Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse keynote did nothing to address enormous skepticism and shows why the idea should have been an R&D project, not Meta's future
As Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the camera in a pre-recorded presentation on Tuesday to kick off Meta Platforms Inc.'s annual virtual reality conference …
2022-07-29
Meta, Snap, Twitter, Roku, and others say the ad market looks bad. But, “Amazon's ad business is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy quarter for online advertising, and shows the company is picking up share in one of its fastest-growing businesses.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Amazon
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $121.2B, $2B net loss vs. $7.8B net income in Q2 2021, and AWS revenue up 33% YoY; stock jumps 12%+
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.