Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand
OpenAI's $500B valuation, Meta's privacy backlash and more Ankush Das / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI Hits $500 Billion, Surpasses SpaceX as World's Most Valuable Startup MarketWatch : OpenAI join...
Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device
From iyO's home page: … Like I wrote yesterday, I'd never heard of iyO before. Alex Hughes / Tom's Guide : OpenAI court filings just revealed new details on AI device with Jony Ive Mahnoor Faisal / La...
Ring is sunsetting a tool that lets police request footage from users via its Neighbors app, forcing law enforcement to obtain warrants or evidence of emergency
mostly The Sun : Amazon announces major change to Ring doorbell over controversial police footage requests Matthew Guariglia / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longe...
By tweeting that his Twitter deal is “on hold”, Musk yet again commits “lite securities fraud” while laying the groundwork to walk away or renegotiate the price
Musk's Deal On Hold Politique Republic : Elon Musk is Paying Too Much for Twitter Chandraveer Mathur / iPhone Hacks : Elon Musk Says the $44 Billion Twitter Deal Is ‘on Hold’ Owen Thomas / Protocol : ...
UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations
for the UK Shona Ghosh / Business Insider : Facebook was destroyed by British lawmakers for its disastrous year, but new laws should not … Adam Satariano / New York Times : Facebook Targeted in Scathi...
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage; MacKenzie worked at Amazon from the beginning
How Podcasts Are Filling a Real Need Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announce they are divorcing Levi Pulkkinen / The Guardian : MacKenzie Bezos: divorc...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
In email to employees, Sundar Pichai says Google fired 48 people, including 13 senior managers, over last 2 years for sexual harassment; none had exit packages
Has Amazon Peaked? Rob Quinn / Newser : Google CEO: NYT Story on Us Is ‘Difficult to Read’ Richard Chirgwin / The Register : If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its ‘se...
Filing shows Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is set to make about $186M from Verizon deal based on current stock value, from options, restricted units, and shares
Inside the fading tech giant's lavish multi-million dollar soiree. Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Marissa Mayer will depart Yahoo with enough money to leave her children's children an inheritance Luke Stan...
Apple and Samsung argue patent case before Supreme Court; justices challenge value of design patents, which Samsung was found to have infringed
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Killian Bell / iPhone Hacks : Supreme Court Quizzes Apple and Samsung on Value of Design Edith Roberts / SCOTUSblog : Wednesday round-up — Yesterday the Supreme Court hea...