Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard
When you use our services, you're trusting us with your information. Mariella Moon / Engadget : Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI models...
Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more
AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch
Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized Towson, Maryland store as a cautionary tale
Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing. Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company's product …
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe. Tweets: @sidhubaba , @car...
GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches
otherwise, it's hard to imagine why GM would take such a radical step & risk alienating consumers by completely ditching Apple CarPlay GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, w...
Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”
The Privacy Layer for ChatGPT — Safely leverage ChatGPT for your business without compromising privacy. John Hendel / Politico : 5 questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson Adaeze Uc...
GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches
General Motors' electric future doesn't include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. — The automaker's upcoming lineup …
Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”
The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
A look at the growing social media dubbing industry, which is helping MrBeast and other YouTubers reach global audiences and monetize videos in many languages
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After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle
Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms' power shifts to the courts
Apple's lean hiring may help the company avoid layoffs; Apple's workforce grew ~20% from 2019 to 2022, Amazon's grew 100%, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53%
The iPhone maker's workforce grew 20% in the past three years, a far slower pace than rivals — Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse Course
Apple's lean hiring may help the company avoid layoffs; Apple's workforce grew ~20% from 2019 to 2022, Amazon's grew 100%, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53%
The iPhone maker's workforce grew 20% in the past three years, a far slower pace than rivals — Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse Course
Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns
Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
After Futurism found major errors in an AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as currently being reviewed “for accuracy”
Microsoft makes its Azure OpenAI Service, announced in 2021, broadly available, giving users access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT “soon”
Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI's viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service …
A look at Elon Musk's options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end
Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
Ampere Analysis: a decade-long original TV show spending boom is expected to slow to a crawl in 2023; streaming services will cut growth from 25% in 2022 to 8%
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Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon's labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech
The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall. — The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …