Journals

Emma Roth / The Verge: A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers’ Association’s copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement  —  The music labels suing Twitter — now X —… Read More »A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers’ Association’s copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Bloomberg: OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing the company when it “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him”  —  OpenAI hit back at Elon Musk in a blog post published on its site… Read More »OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing the company when it “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him” (Bloomberg)

Kara Carlson / Austin American-Statesman: Waymo begins testing its driverless ride-hailing service without a safety operator in Austin starting March 6, initially offering the service to Waymo employees  —  Autonomous vehicle company Waymo will begin testing driverless cars, with no… Read More »Waymo begins testing its driverless ride-hailing service without a safety operator in Austin starting March 6, initially offering the service to Waymo employees (Kara Carlson/Austin American-Statesman)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long”  —  Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw —… Read More »Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long” (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Niléane / MacStories: Apple releases iOS 17.4 with new default browser prompts in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more  —  Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates… Read More »Apple releases iOS 17.4 with new default browser prompts in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more (Niléane/MacStories)

Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta’s share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022  —  The augmented and virtual… Read More »IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta’s share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022 (Brian Fagioli/BetaNews)

Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Rufus, Amazon’s AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations  —  If AI is so magical, why are so many chatbots… Read More »Rufus, Amazon’s AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized  —  A year ago, TikTok introduced a new way… Read More »TikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Ema, a generative AI startup with the goal of building a “universal AI employee” to automate mundane tasks, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding  —  Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public… Read More »Ema, a generative AI startup with the goal of building a “universal AI employee” to automate mundane tasks, emerges from stealth with $25M in funding (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: New York-based RapidSOS, which develops systems to help emergency response teams, raised $75M led by BlackRock, bringing its latest round to a total of $150M  —  – Investment brings its latest round to a total of… Read More »New York-based RapidSOS, which develops systems to help emergency response teams, raised $75M led by BlackRock, bringing its latest round to a total of $150M (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)