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Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends info-sharing meetings with other social platforms (Washington Post)

    Washington Post: Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends info-sharing meetings with other social platforms  —  X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media… Read More »Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends info-sharing meetings with other social platforms (Washington Post)

    OpenAI’s Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the company continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

      Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: OpenAI’s Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the company continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model  —  Sam Altman is being secretive in all the wrong places as… Read More »OpenAI’s Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the company continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

      The EU expands DSA to all online platforms, marketplaces, and “intermediaries”; only businesses with fewer than 50 staff and annual revenue of €10M+ are exempt (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)

        Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: The EU expands DSA to all online platforms, marketplaces, and “intermediaries”; only businesses with fewer than 50 staff and annual revenue of €10M+ are exempt  —  The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook… Read More »The EU expands DSA to all online platforms, marketplaces, and “intermediaries”; only businesses with fewer than 50 staff and annual revenue of €10M+ are exempt (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)

        Clubhouse launches group voice chats, which will read out texts sent by members in the sender’s custom voice (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

          Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Clubhouse launches group voice chats, which will read out texts sent by members in the sender’s custom voice  —  Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, announced today that users can now text their friends and they’ll… Read More »Clubhouse launches group voice chats, which will read out texts sent by members in the sender’s custom voice (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

          Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project as the involvement of UAE and others risks raising national security, antitrust concerns (Bloomberg)

            Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project as the involvement of UAE and others risks raising national security, antitrust concerns  —  – Middle East investors, factories may prompt security concerns  — Potential new… Read More »Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project as the involvement of UAE and others risks raising national security, antitrust concerns (Bloomberg)

            Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which will call businesses on users’ behalf and hold until a human becomes available (Abner Li/9to5Google)

              Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which will call businesses on users’ behalf and hold until a human becomes available  —  Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a… Read More »Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which will call businesses on users’ behalf and hold until a human becomes available (Abner Li/9to5Google)

              South Korea’s FTC delays a bill modeled after the EU’s DMA, after a furious backlash from South Korean industry lobbyists and consumers, along with the US (New York Times)

                New York Times: South Korea’s FTC delays a bill modeled after the EU’s DMA, after a furious backlash from South Korean industry lobbyists and consumers, along with the US  —  South Korea pledged to protect it online platforms from marketplace… Read More »South Korea’s FTC delays a bill modeled after the EU’s DMA, after a furious backlash from South Korean industry lobbyists and consumers, along with the US (New York Times)

                Reserve Bank of India says it is not planning harsher rules to curb the country’s fintech sector, weeks after abruptly suspending Paytm Payments Bank operations (Bloomberg)

                  Bloomberg: Reserve Bank of India says it is not planning harsher rules to curb the country’s fintech sector, weeks after abruptly suspending Paytm Payments Bank operations  —  – RBI wants to have a hands-off approach on fintech regulation  — Comments… Read More »Reserve Bank of India says it is not planning harsher rules to curb the country’s fintech sector, weeks after abruptly suspending Paytm Payments Bank operations (Bloomberg)

                  Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to “authoritative” sources of voting info (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

                    Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to “authoritative” sources of voting info  —  Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI… Read More »Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to “authoritative” sources of voting info (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

                    An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter’s tumultuous transition to X (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)

                      Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter’s tumultuous transition to X  —  Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? … Read More »An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter’s tumultuous transition to X (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)

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