Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions
available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company wa...
US v. Google: the DOJ says in a May 5 filing that Google should sell its AdX business and DFP ad platform; Google says divestiture isn't warranted or feasible
Wall Street Journal :
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape it...
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape it...
Q&A with Sam Altman on the path to OpenAI, its origin story, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and the AI outlook
This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B over the next four years
OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...
US filing: Google sent subpoenas in October 2024 to OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft for the remedies part of the US v. Google search antitrust trial
Marty Swant / Digiday :
Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
Perplexity launches a dedicated hub for the US general election, including ballot measures and voting results, while rivals like OpenAI have been more cautious
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, might hallucinate from time to time. But the company wants to show that it's trustworthy enough …
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall...
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $84.7B, net income up 29% YoY to $23.6B, Search revenue of $48.5B, up from $42.6B YoY, headcount down 1% to 179,582
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties
Oracle (ORCL.N) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company …
Three US senators introduce the COPIED Act, which aims to give journalists, songwriters, and artists tools to fight AI models using their work without consent
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; the app is invite-only
Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; it is currently invite-only
Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” — A previous version of Airchat was released last year …