Mia Sato / The Verge: A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content — One Amazon influencer makes a living posting content from her beige home. But after she noticed another account hocking the same minimal aesthetic …
Published: 2024-11-26 18:55:07
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber launches a data labeling service called Scaled Solutions, accepting gig worker signups from India, the US, Canada, Poland, and Nicaragua — - Rideshare giant wants to help other businesses train AI models — Company accepting signups from India, US, Canada and Poland
Published: 2024-11-26 16:35:02
Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024 — - Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.
Published: 2024-11-26 15:45:17
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: /dev/agents, which plans to build a cloud-based OS for AI agents that can work across phones, laptops, and cars, raised $56M, a source says at a $500M valuation — The company is looking to build an operating system to support a new crop of artificial intelligence products.
Published: 2024-11-26 14:15:00
Mark Banchereau / Associated Press: Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries from September 2 to October 31 to clamp down on cybercrime that left 35K victims with $193M in losses — Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a two-month operation clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims …
Published: 2024-11-26 13:40:12
Bloomberg: OpenAI, Meta, and Orange plan to train AI models on African languages, starting with Wolof and Pulaar, addressing a shortage for Africa's thousands of dialects — - Firms will start with West African languages Wolof and Pulaar — Orange seeks to develop AI tools for customer interactions
Published: 2024-11-26 12:45:04
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Bluesky says it is working to comply with EU rules and is consulting with its lawyers, after the bloc accused the social network of flouting its regulations — Bluesky said it's working to comply with European Union rules after the bloc accused the fast-growing social media platform of flouting its digital regulations.
Published: 2024-11-26 12:20:00
Adam Satariano / New York Times: An interview with Margrethe Vestager, the EU's tech antitrust enforcer since 2014, on her “partly successful” tenure, US collaboration, Trump, the DSA, and more — Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's antitrust regulator, who put technology's harms on the global agenda …
Published: 2024-11-26 11:25:01
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Cradle, which uses AI to help design proteins and says its SaaS model is popular, raised a $73M Series B led by IVP, after a $24M Series A in November 2023 — Using AI to accelerate biotech is fast becoming standard practice, and companies offering services to deploy the tech quickly are seeing big uptake and new investment.
Published: 2024-11-26 11:05:12
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google proposes Search tweaks in the EU to comply with the DMA, including removing the map showing hotel locations and results in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia — Google has proposed more changes to its search results in Europe after some smaller rivals complained about lower traffic …
Published: 2024-11-26 10:45:04
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on running the company since 2019, competing with Squarespace, Wix, and more, AI, social media, the Airo service, and more — Despite everything, websites are still a pretty neat idea — but what if AI builds them?
Published: 2024-11-26 10:30:02
Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: The US awards Intel up to $7.865B under the CHIPS Act to help build or expand chip plants in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon, including $1B+ later in 2024 — Government grant is less than originally expected because the chip giant is also receiving separate funding for defense
Published: 2024-11-26 10:15:02
New York Times: Huawei unveils the $760+ Mate 70 series, powered by its HarmonyOS Next, calling the flagship the “smartest” Mate phone, as it continues to face US chip curbs — Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
Published: 2024-11-26 09:55:00
Bill Donahue / Billboard: Drake initiates legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to pump Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track that attacks Drake — In a legal petition, the star's company accuses UMG of serious wrongdoing — a stunning twist months after his high-profile feud with Kendrick.
Published: 2024-11-26 09:10:01
Bloomberg: Sources: Xiaomi prepares a self-designed chip for its smartphones, to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm and MediaTek, with mass production set to begin in 2025 — - Chinese firm is said to use in-house chips on 2025 phones — Xiaomi's smartphone, EV businesses needs steady chip supply
Published: 2024-11-26 06:50:00