In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Capitulating law firms suggested they had to capitulate to retain clients. The opposite may be true. [embedded post] Amanda Marcotte / @ama...
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b visas. It started whe...
X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024
and any disputes must be heard in a Trump-friendly court Christianna Silva / Mashable : X to allow third parties to train AI on your posts James Bentley / PC Gamer : The AI opt-out models Meta, Musk's...
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
Google says ChromeOS will soon be developed on portions of the Android stack, including its Linux kernel and frameworks, to bring AI features to users faster
for more AI features, faster Muskaan Saxena / TechRadar : Google wants to put more AI in Chromebooks - and it's using Android to help it Jay Bonggolto / Android Central : Chromebooks are borrowing tec...
Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for “any robot or physical device”, raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, and more
Physical Intelligence (Pi, π, @physical_int). We're focused on bringing the amazing recent breakthroughs of AI and foundation models into the physical world. Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : It's a two s...
A joint US-China research effort finds that graphene can act as a semiconductor, but experts say graphene chips face immense manufacturing hurdles and costs
a few screenshots are attached (from Tianjin... [image] Byron Wan / @byron_wan : Press releases from Georgia Tech (L) and Tianjin University (R) — supposedly collaborators on the same graphene semicon...
A look at YouTube's strategy that began in 2019 of signing Twitch streamers who have a network of collaborators to try and build its own game streaming culture
Listen — Gift Article — Where once the departure of Twitch stars for YouTube Gaming elicited shock and awe …
Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants
cataloguing not just what you say but the physical world around you. Such systems could be incredibly useful, of course, but have huge privacy implications. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitte...
Interviews with more than a dozen designers, many of whom worked with Jeff Bezos, about his failed attempt to make Amazon a “cool” brand like Apple and Nike
Amazon can squeeze a lot into a box. — Jared Ficklin was part of a secret team at a prominent design firm tapped … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcode...