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Matt Burgess / Wired: An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies  —  Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites… Read More »An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform  —  America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication… Read More »The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform (Zephyr Teachout/The Atlantic)

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Paris-based Greenly, whose carbon accounting software helps SMBs track their carbon emissions, raised a $52M Series B, and reports $10M+ in ARR in 2023  —  Plenty of major corporations have announced net-zero emissions targets.  And… Read More »Paris-based Greenly, whose carbon accounting software helps SMBs track their carbon emissions, raised a $52M Series B, and reports $10M+ in ARR in 2023 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Financial Times: Court docs: Sachin Dev Duggal, the CEO of London-based Builder.ai that raised a $250M Series D in 2023, is a suspect in a money laundering probe in India  —  Court documents show Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot… Read More »Court docs: Sachin Dev Duggal, the CEO of London-based Builder.ai that raised a $250M Series D in 2023, is a suspect in a money laundering probe in India (Financial Times)

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: In a research paper, Google Research details how AI enabled the company to provide accurate flood forecasting in over 80 countries up to seven days in advance  —  A paper published in Nature today shows… Read More »In a research paper, Google Research details how AI enabled the company to provide accurate flood forecasting in over 80 countries up to seven days in advance (Yossi Matias/The Keyword)

Michael Kan / PCMag: Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying the aim is to restrict the use of such devices “to legitimate actors only”  —  A Canadian regulatory agency says the aim is to… Read More »Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying the aim is to restrict the use of such devices “to legitimate actors only” (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM claimed to be built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials by legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures  —  OpenAI claimed it’s “impossible” to build good AI models without using… Read More »Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM claimed to be built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials by legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it hasn’t yet set a timeline for the release of Sora, as the company tries to catch up to other text-to-video AI startups like Runway AI  —  Software that can create convincing video from… Read More »OpenAI says it hasn’t yet set a timeline for the release of Sora, as the company tries to catch up to other text-to-video AI startups like Runway AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Boston-based CyberSaint, which helps enterprises assess, measure, remediate, and communicate their cyber risk posture, raised a $21M Series A led by Riverside  —  Cyber risk management startup CyberSaint Inc. today announced that it has raised $21… Read More »Boston-based CyberSaint, which helps enterprises assess, measure, remediate, and communicate their cyber risk posture, raised a $21M Series A led by Riverside (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Temu and Shein have supplanted Walmart and Target as focal points in internal Amazon meetings related to retail, as Amazon explores new promo campaigns  —  The e-commerce companies with Chinese roots have, for… Read More »Sources: Temu and Shein have supplanted Walmart and Target as focal points in internal Amazon meetings related to retail, as Amazon explores new promo campaigns (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)