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 Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC chair Brendan Carr, the alliance between Trump and Musk and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status) https://www.status.news/p/nilay-patel-donald-trump-big-tech-interview AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy-ai-search-engine-perplexity-is-directly-ripping-off-content-from-news-outlets/
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 @Techmeme yeah, that's literally how "AI" works. might be less noticeable in other instances, but nonetheless: they steal everything, mix it well, and sell as their own. ByteDance investors reassessing what the company's value would be without TikTok, estimate that TikTok lost several billion dollars in 2023 on revenue of ~$20B (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-ban-bill-spotlights-open-secret-app-loses-money Q&A with Yoel Roth, as he joins Match Group as head of trust and safety, 16 months after his public exit from Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition (Lauren Goode/Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/yoel-roth-twitter-trust-safety-match-dating-apps/ An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH (benjojo blog) https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances How a change to US tax law Section 174, forcing amortization of software labor, led to higher tax bills, less hiring and more layoffs, IP moving abroad, more (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer) https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/ Sources: Apple blocking Beeper Mini has caught the attention of the DOJ, which is in the middle of a four-year-old probe into Apple's anticompetitive behavior (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/technology/apple-iphone-beeper-mini.html Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made "troubling and baseless claims" to hurt Twitter and its ad business (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html  @Techmeme Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and others are testing the use of "synthetic data", as they find generic data from the web is no longer good enough for training LLMs (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) https://t.co/Q9lu0TR0qA   Bluesky raised an $8M seed led by Neo and partners with Namecheap to offer easy custom domain purchasing and management, Bluesky's first paid service (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-seed-round-first-paid-service-custom-domains/  A look at Apple's attempt to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, including in Switzerland, worrying the 111-year-old Fruit Union Suisse (Gabriela Galindo/Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/ |
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