2024-07-02
This is framed as a hold / punt by SCOTUS, but it's a pretty clear loss for Texas and Florida. The court (and based on the concurrences, there seem to be at least 5 votes here) is pretty clear in saying that if social media companies want to make their algorithmic feeds lean left or right, that's a First Amendment protected right.
CBS News
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges
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The decision punts back to the lower courts though because this is a facial challenge — that is, plaintiffs are preemptively challenging the entire law, not a particular application. And neither lower court evaluated all possible applications. …
CBS News
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges
The First Amendment was written in the 18th century … The Hill : Morning Report — Is a Trump election interference trial off the table? CCIA : Supreme Court Issues Ruling in CCIA, ...
2023-10-24
My understanding is that Siri has always sucked because Apple insists on doing more work locally on the device relative to Google and MS. The interesting thing though is we're maybe only a couple years away from being able to efficiently run LLMs on mobile devices. Curious if that changes the dynamic.
Daring Fireball
Sources: many people inside Apple do not believe its own AI/ML team can deliver on generative AI, and worry that the company will only use that team's output
Speaking of Mark Gurman, he has an interesting bit about Apple's AI efforts in his latest Power On column: