Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers
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Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law
For those of you who haven't been following, the law doesn't *ban* TikTok—instead, it'll prohibit “app stores” and the like from offering it or servicing it after 01/19 *if* (and only if) there isn't ...
Elon Musk appears to confirm that X deprioritizes posts with links in their main text, to stop “lazy linking”, and tells users to “put the link in the reply”
Anyway, here's the biggest loser of all, admitting to throttling links and blaming the user for wanting to link: — https://www.mediaite.com/... Bluesky: @davidjoffe64.bsky.social : More reasons to a...
Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs has lost $45B+ since 2020's end
It's burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020. — https://www.cnbc.com/... #tech #meta #metaverse #vr X: Jason Kint / @jason_kint : So generous. This is very likely just more aggres...
Utah lawmakers are fast-tracking two bills that would require social media companies to verify users' age, give parents access to their kids' accounts, and more
and would like to get the government involved in the process. What was that about GOP and small government again? Or does that not apply in the theocracy state? https://twitter.com/... Gustavo Turner ...
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles
Andy Baio / Waxy.org : Tweets: @waxpancake , @dreamwieber , @simonw , and @fredbenenson Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustr...
Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number
RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politico.eu/... Derek Powa...
This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more
whose product does not work reliably—has embedded itself in government functions across the country https://twitter.com/... David Greene / @davidgreene : Oh FFS, please just audit rich people who rout...
[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false
of the women (or just people; take a look at the quotes) who'd have to work with this guy. https://twitter.com/... @antoniogm : 4. I did not ‘part ways’ with Apple. I was fired by Apple in a snap deci...
Sources detail Google's troubles with game development as the company couldn't stomach the complicated creative process amid Stadia's poor streaming numbers
Great read by @cecianasta. https://www.wired.com/... Brian Crecente / @crecenteb : Some great insight here. I'd add that there's also probably an issue of lost opportunity costs for both companies as ...