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 (Bill Donahue/Billboard)

X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts  —  “X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS.”  —  On Monday, X filed an objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars out of bankruptcy.

Published: 2024-11-26 20:45:02

A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content (Mia Sato/The Verge)

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

Uber launches a data labeling service called Scaled Solutions, accepting gig worker signups from India, the US, Canada, Poland, and Nicaragua (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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

/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 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Mark Banchereau/Associated Press)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

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 (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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

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 (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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

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 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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

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 (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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

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 (Thomas Gryta/Wall Street Journal)

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

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 (New York Times)

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