An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's “masculine energy”, Silicon Valley's “cloying conformity” and “combination of machismo and self-pity”, and more
When Britain's former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world.
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s
Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model
Apple fans: “The EU must approve of Apple's plans, otherwise Apple wouldn't have announced them” — The EU: “Hang on a minute...” https://www.theverge.com/... Jan Penfrat / @ilumi...
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's …
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup
Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
Source: Meta and Microsoft lobby EU regulators to reject Apple's iOS and App Store changes to comply with the DMA, saying Apple's plans fail to go far enough
Meta and Microsoft want Brussels regulators to extract more concessions that unpick iOS mobile software
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bir...
Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism
RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.
Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, and more
Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
Margrethe Vestager says discrimination, not extinction, is a more pressing concern for AI due to training models and “guardrails” are needed to counter bias
Discrimination is a more pressing concern from advancing artificial intelligence than human extinction, says the EU's competition chief.
The European Parliament passes the AI Act, which would curtail facial recognition, mandate data disclosures, and more; a final version should pass later in 2023
A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting
France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation
it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/... @e_estonia...
Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act
OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week …
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for it...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for it...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for it...
The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months
Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open