India plans to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a change Apple lobbied for
it can now fund iPhone-making machines for Foxconn and Tata Electronics without fearing tax/income liabilities... 📱India's government on Sunday handed a major win to Apple by allowing foreign companie...
Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has “no impact” on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring
and struck a new deal with Microsoft Frank Landymore / Futurism : OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit Ashley King / Digital Music News : OpenAI Restructures Into a For-Profit ...
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Meta starts rolling out built-in message translation in WhatsApp, with support for 19+ languages on iOS and six on Android
Qualcomm calls it incredible Sagar / GSMArena.com : WhatsApp announces Message Translations feature for Android and iPhone users Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : WhatsApp Rolls Out On-Device Message...
TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers
The US has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base …
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models …
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections
Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/roblox... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : Talked to Roblox's chief safety officer Matt Kaufman about their new age verification system and what 13-year-o...
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections
Teens will have to prove they are older than 13 to make ‘Trusted Connections’ they can chat more freely with.
Experts warn Trump's trade policies risk US dominance in digital services, often uncounted by traditional statistics, as the EU considers retaliatory tariffs
which can be freely shared, modified, and distributed—may gain significant advantages.” … Forums: r/OptimistsUnite : A little confused about this one. Would this really splinter the internet like the...
How the UK's Met Office, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, and startups leverage AI to make more accurate and detailed forecasts further into the future
so long as met data continues to flow freely https://www.ft.com/... via @ft