Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, including for the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act
with more than $10 million spent in 2024 David Meyer / Fortune : Elon Musk fumes as Trump's Stargate AI announcement elevates arch-rival Sam Altman LinkedIn: James O'Donnell : I dug into OpenAI's late...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
Google DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a video generation model that can create clips over two minutes long at resolutions up to 4K, available in VideoFX via a waitlist
Our state-of-the-art video generation model — Veo creates videos with realistic motion … Emilia David / VentureBeat : Google debuts new AI video generator Veo 2 claiming better audience scores than ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about the potential “chilling effect” of AI safety bill SB 1047, which awaits his signature, on AI development
but social media users may have last laugh David Meyer / Fortune : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs anti-deepfake laws—but he hasn't yet made up his mind on the biggest AI bill Laura Mandaro / The I...
Japan's government finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems on June 28, 2024, after scrapping 1,034 regulations governing their use
Japanese government says it has finally eradicated ancient hardware David Meyer / Fortune : OpenAI's reported decision to let Apple sit in on its board meetings is very revealing J.D. Capelouto / Sema...
Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally
5 New Vulnerabilities Exposed in Widely Used Radio Communication System Thomas Claburn / The Register : TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Waqas / HackRead : From P...
Southwest Airlines says an operational meltdown over the holiday weekend was partly caused by its scheduling software, which a union rep called “outdated”
New York CNN — A punishing winter storm … Los Angeles Times : Far from a shock, Southwest meltdown was ‘perfect storm’ of well-known vulnerabilities Scott Neuman / NPR : The blizzard is just one rea...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal
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Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers
Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : WSJ: Amazon changed search results to boost profits despite internal dissent Victoria Song / Gizmodo : ...
Facebook announces plans to launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, and Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary to oversee financial services for Libra
The internet has changed nearly every aspect of our lives … Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Facebook Will Make the Money Now — Also cheating on tests and renting Buffett's house. Kari Paul / The Guardian ...