Journals

Susan Lazaruk / Vancouver Sun: Canada’s Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines’ chatbot  —  A B.C. man booked an Air Canada flight to Toronto for… Read More »Canada’s Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines’ chatbot (Susan Lazaruk/Vancouver Sun)

Bloomberg: Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors  —  – SoftBank has $41 billion cash pile and finances helped by… Read More »Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors (Bloomberg)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google releases the first developer preview of Android 15, with updates related to Android’s Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, and more  —  Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here.  It includes a lot of… Read More »Google releases the first developer preview of Android 15, with updates related to Android’s Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, more  —  The platform will feature deeper analytics and lower fees than the digital… Read More »Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, more (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Epic says it “will start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon thanks to the new Digital Markets Act”, after Apple approved its developer account  —  Three years after Apple kicked Epic Games off the… Read More »Epic says it “will start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon thanks to the new Digital Markets Act”, after Apple approved its developer account (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

Associated Press: OpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters  —  Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to… Read More »OpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters (Associated Press)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020  —  – PitchBook said in… Read More »PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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)

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)

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)