Dennis Troper, Susan Wojcicki's husband, announced her death.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-08-10 — 2024-08-11
Dennis Troper Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer
9to5Google · 2024-08-10 · #1
Some terms reportedly sought by Meta for voice-use deals have triggered actors' fears about AI and its impact on performers.
rumored 2 articles 2024-08-03 — 2024-08-04
Meta actors
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms
Bloomberg · 2024-08-03 · #8
Trump has expressed newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg after years of criticism.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-08-03 — 2024-08-04
Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told Trump he wouldn't endorse a Democrat because he “respected” Trump's reaction that day
The Verge · 2024-08-03 · #13
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt.
rumored 2 articles 2024-08-03 — 2024-08-04
Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told Trump he wouldn't endorse a Democrat because he “respected” Trump's reaction that day
The Verge · 2024-08-03 · #13
Trump says Zuckerberg told him he would not endorse a Democrat, citing respect for Trump's reaction that day.
rumored 2 articles 2024-08-03 — 2024-08-04
Mark Zuckerberg Democrat
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told Trump he wouldn't endorse a Democrat because he “respected” Trump's reaction that day
The Verge · 2024-08-03 · #13
Kamala Harris' advisers have reportedly approached top crypto firms including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs to try to reset relations with the crypto industry after criticism of the Biden administration.
rumored 2 articles 2024-07-27 — 2024-07-28
Kamala Harris' advisers Coinbase Circle Ripple Labs crypto industry
Sources: Kamala Harris' advisers have approached top crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple Labs, to “reset” relations with the industry
Financial Times · 2024-07-28 · #2
Sources detail that Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts over the past year to repair X's business and win back advertisers.
rumored 2 articles 2024-07-27 — 2024-07-28
Elon Musk Linda Yaccarino X
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2
New York Times · 2024-07-27 · #8
DOJ filing alleges TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-27 — 2024-07-28
US Department of Justice TikTok users' views on gun control, abortion, religion
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction
Wall Street Journal · 2024-07-27 · #1
Michael Moritz, Reed Hastings and Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus publicly urged Joe Biden to drop out/step aside.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-20 — 2024-07-21
Michael Moritz Reed Hastings Mark Pincus Joe Biden
Michael Moritz urges Biden to drop out, joining other tech leaders such as Reed Hastings and the Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus in calling for Biden to step aside
New York Times · 2024-07-20 · #23
CrowdStrike says the sensor configuration update triggered a logic error that resulted in system crashes and Blue Screen of Death on impacted Windows systems.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-20 — 2024-07-21
CrowdStrike Windows systems BSOD
CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD on impacted systems
CrowdStrike · 2024-07-21 · #2
Amazon is conducting a campaign to prevent employees from organizing ahead of a key UK workers' union vote.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-13 — 2024-07-14
Amazon employees unionization
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts
Financial Times · 2024-07-13 · #10
Amazon has fended off most similar US attempts to organize workers, preventing unionization in multiple cases.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-13 — 2024-07-14
Amazon US unionization attempts
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts
Financial Times · 2024-07-13 · #10
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will 'fight' Apple's request/action regarding the Epic Games Store review.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-07 — 2024-07-08
Tim Sweeney Epic Apple
Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this”
AppleInsider · 2024-07-07 · #3
Corrupt Politicians GPT is a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-06 — 2024-07-07
Corrupt Politicians GPT corruption cases involving politicians
How Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools, including the Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians
Semafor · 2024-07-06 · #19
Kenya's anti-government protestors are using the Corrupt Politicians GPT chatbot.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-06 — 2024-07-07
Kenya's anti-government protestors Corrupt Politicians GPT
How Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools, including the Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians
Semafor · 2024-07-06 · #19
Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-07-06 — 2024-07-07
Kenya's anti-government protestors AI tools
How Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools, including the Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians
Semafor · 2024-07-06 · #19
More than a dozen men allegedly threatened, assaulted, tortured, and kidnapped 11 victims in a crypto-focused serial extortion campaign.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-06-29 — 2024-06-30
More than a dozen men (gang) 11 victims crypto-focused
Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US
Wired · 2024-06-29 · #4
Court filings show Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives played down risks that the company's products posed to young users.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-06-22 — 2024-06-23
Mark Zuckerberg Meta executives young users
Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff
New York Times · 2024-06-23 · #6
Sam Altman told investors that OpenAI could become a for-profit business no longer controlled by its nonprofit board.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-15 — 2024-06-16
OpenAI for-profit business nonprofit board
Source: Altman told investors that OpenAI could become a for-profit business not controlled by its nonprofit board; Microsoft execs favor a for-profit option
The Information · 2024-06-15 · #1
Critics claim the bill will harm open-source AI models.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Critics open-source models
Critics say California's AI safety bill, which requires “kill switches” for AI models, will force AI startups to leave, harm open-source models, and more
Financial Times · 2024-06-08 · #4
Tech companies have launched a fightback against the proposed California law that would introduce a 'kill switch' for powerful AI models.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Tech companies California AI safety bill
Critics say California's AI safety bill, which requires “kill switches” for AI models, will force AI startups to leave, harm open-source models, and more
Financial Times · 2024-06-08 · #4
Perplexity is republishing portions of stories from Forbes and other publications with nearly identical wording and inadequate attribution via its Pages feature.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Perplexity Forbes other publications
AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature
Forbes · 2024-06-08 · #2
Critics claim the bill will force AI startups to leave California.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Critics AI startups California
Critics say California's AI safety bill, which requires “kill switches” for AI models, will force AI startups to leave, harm open-source models, and more
Financial Times · 2024-06-08 · #4
Wright allegedly skirted conflicts of interest.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Joshua Wright
How ex-FTC commissioner Joshua Wright became the tech industry's fixer, while allegedly juggling inappropriate relationships and skirting conflicts of interests
Wall Street Journal · 2024-06-08 · #19
Wright allegedly juggled inappropriate relationships.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-08 — 2024-06-09
Joshua Wright
How ex-FTC commissioner Joshua Wright became the tech industry's fixer, while allegedly juggling inappropriate relationships and skirting conflicts of interests
Wall Street Journal · 2024-06-08 · #19
Adobe clarifies it does not train its Firefly generative AI models on customer content.
denied 2 articles 2024-06-07 — 2024-06-08
Adobe Firefly Gen AI customer content
Adobe clarifies its terms, saying it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content and will never assume ownership of a customer's work
9to5Mac · 2024-06-08 · #11
Adobe states it will never assume ownership of a customer's work.
denied 2 articles 2024-06-07 — 2024-06-08
Adobe customer work
Adobe clarifies its terms, saying it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content and will never assume ownership of a customer's work
9to5Mac · 2024-06-08 · #11
Snowflake disputes the threat actor's claims that an employee's credentials were used to compromise Ticketmaster and Santander.
denied 2 articles 2024-06-01 — 2024-06-02
Snowflake Ticketmaster Santander Snowflake employee credentials
Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims
BleepingComputer · 2024-06-01 · #1
A threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander and stolen data by using credentials from a Snowflake employee, according to researchers.
rumored 2 articles 2024-06-01 — 2024-06-02
Threat actor Ticketmaster Santander Snowflake employee credentials
Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims
BleepingComputer · 2024-06-01 · #1
Other platforms are eschewing political content, prompting creators to use Twitch for political coverage and fundraising.
confirmed 2 articles 2024-06-01 — 2024-06-02
Other platforms
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics
Washington Post · 2024-06-02 · #14