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Randy Thanthong-Knight / Bloomberg: Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator  —  – Bill to hold platforms responsible for extremist material  — Also… Read More »Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator (Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg)

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Unity reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $609M, vs. $551M est., but down 2% YoY to $510M excluding a Wētā FX deal, Q1 sales guidance far below est.; U drops 15%+  —  ‘All of our… Read More »Unity reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $609M, vs. $551M est., but down 2% YoY to $510M excluding a Wētā FX deal, Q1 sales guidance far below est.; U drops 15%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q4 revenue of $1.15B, up 2.6% YoY, vs. $1.13B est., Enterprise revenue of $667M, up 4.9% YoY, and announces a $1.5B stock buyback; ZM jumps 10%+  —  The company also announced a $1.5 billion… Read More »Zoom reports Q4 revenue of $1.15B, up 2.6% YoY, vs. $1.13B est., Enterprise revenue of $667M, up 4.9% YoY, and announces a $1.5B stock buyback; ZM jumps 10%+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: While Google paused Gemini’s image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI  —  Last Wednesday, when the questions about Gemini’s political viewpoint were still limited… Read More »While Google paused Gemini’s image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily  —  A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000… Read More »Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bloomberg: During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies’ 1A rights  —  – Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws  — But court voices… Read More »During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies’ 1A rights (Bloomberg)

The Economic Times: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about the Indian market, competition, achieving profitability, regrets about selling UberEats in India, regulations, more  —  Dara Khosrowshahi took over as the CEO of Uber Technologies in 2017, when the mobility… Read More »Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about the Indian market, competition, achieving profitability, regrets about selling UberEats in India, regulations, more (The Economic Times)

Washington Post: Live blog of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for a pair of cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws that impose strict limits on moderation  —  Supreme Court justices are weighing how the First Amendment… Read More »Live blog of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for a pair of cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws that impose strict limits on moderation (Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers’ compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more  —  AI will change adult entertainment forever.  The risks — for sex workers… Read More »How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers’ compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: South Korea’s SK Telecom partners with Perplexity to access its proprietary models and to offer Perplexity’s paid version of its AI-based search engine for free  —  SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telco, is partnering with U.S.… Read More »South Korea’s SK Telecom partners with Perplexity to access its proprietary models and to offer Perplexity’s paid version of its AI-based search engine for free (Krystal Hu/Reuters)