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Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA (Josh Sisco/Politico)
Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids…
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Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled…
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UK's CMA drops a probe into Apple's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after Apple successfully argued the CMA waited too long to launch the probe (Reuters)
Reuters: UK’s CMA drops a probe into Apple’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after Apple successfully argued the…
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Court: 2018 Musk tweet unlawfully threatened UAW efforts
A federal appeals court has ruled that a 2018 Twitter post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees…
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A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as…
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Filings: BlackRock has cut valuation of India's most valuable startup Byju's from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy's valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filings: BlackRock has cut valuation of India’s most valuable startup Byju’s from $22B to $11.5B and…
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Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets…
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Verizon wins FAA technology deal worth up to $2.4 billion
Verizon Communications is getting a technology contract from the Federal Aviation Administration that could be worth $2.4 billion WASHINGTON —…
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Google says it has updated Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions, with coding capabilities coming soon (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it has updated Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer…
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Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted)
Mimi Billing / Sifted: Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a…
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