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Supreme Court Dodges on Social Media Speech Laws
The US Supreme Court has advised it will not yet weigh in on two controversial state laws (one in Florida and one in Texas) that restrict content moderation performed by social media platforms. The laws, while different, both aim to limit the ability of social media companies to manage the content created by users of their platforms. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube...
Wix Announces New Features at Annual Dev Conference
Wix Studio held its Annual Conference, DevStudio Con, in Bangalore, India, this week and announced several new features it is bringing to market. The announced updates include the new Wix Command-line Interface (CLI), upgrades to the Wix Design System, new app templates, an expansion of Wix plug-in capabilities, and other new developer tools. The Wix CLI is a more...
Appeals Court Says Meta Must Face Discrimination Case
The United States Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit against Meta, ruling the company must face a class action suit raised by a software engineer claiming it discriminates against US citizens. Purushothaman Rajaram submitted the lawsuit in 2022, claiming that Meta did not hire him because of its alleged preference for foreign workers,...
Deal With TIME Is OpenAI’s Latest on Content Licensing
TIME and OpenAI have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that includes a deal to bring TIME content to OpenAI products aimed at improving ChatGPT’s knowledge and accuracy. The deal will give OpenAI access to TIME content, both past and present, bringing accurate and trusted content to train the various AI models OpenAI is building. While OpenAI has inked similar...
Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Charge Over Teams
The European Commission has released the preliminary findings of its antitrust investigation into Microsoft. The investigation focused on Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with the productivity suites Office 365 and Microsoft 365, and found Microsoft has breached EU antitrust rules. The European Commission has provided Microsoft with its written Statement of Objections...
OpenAI Forms Safety & Security Committee
OpenAI has inaugurated a new Safety and Security Committee led by Board Members Bret Taylor (Chair), Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman, and Sam Altman (CEO). In addition to the Board members, the committee will bring in internal and external policy experts. The committee will be tasked with evaluating and proposing changes to existing processes with respect to the safety and...
Amazon to Invest $11 Billion in European Cloud
Amazon will invest €10 billion ($11 billion) in Germany to expand its logistics and cloud operations to meet growing demand in Europe. The investment is expected to add 4,000 new jobs this year, meaning by the end of 2024, Amazon will have more than 40,000 permanent employees in Germany. The company estimates its investment will add €15.4 billion to Germany’s GDP by...
NY Governor Signs Bills To Protect Kids on Social Media
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed two new bills aimed at protecting children on social media, making the state the first to regulate social media platform algorithms. The SAFE For Kids Act requires social media platforms to display content chronologically by default for users under 18. Also, it prohibits sending notifications to minors between 12:00 am and 6:00 am...
Anthropic Releases Stronger AI Model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic has published a new version of its Claude family of AI models. Called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, it boasts improved performance and accuracy. Anthropic says Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms all industry models in various standardized testing areas, such as graduate-level reasoning and coding proficiency. It also claims Claude 3.5 Sonnet “shows marked improvement in grasping...
Microsoft President Testifies Before Congress
On June 13, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith testified before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss Microsoft’s cybersecurity measures. The hearing comes amid increased scrutiny over cybersecurity in general, and for Microsoft in particular, as it is a major contractor for the US government – 3% of the US federal IT budget goes to Microsoft. Rep...
Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Elon Musk has filed to dismiss his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, who are now the CEO and president of OpenAI, respectively. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Altman and Brockman in 2015, filed the lawsuit in February of this year, claiming that OpenAI abandoned its “irrevocable non-profit mission in the pursuit of profit.” The suit...
Wix AI Website Builder Offers More Languages
Wix has expanded its AI website builder to allow users worldwide to create websites using prompts in languages other than English. Wix launched the current iteration of its AI website builder in March (it has offered AI-powered website creation for years). The tool allows users to create entire websites using a chatbot. Users provide details such as their website’s intent...
Amazon Commits $230 Million to Generative AI Startups
Amazon has committed $230 million in Amazon Web Services credits to boost generative AI startups. Some of the money will fund the second round of its AWS Generative AI Accelerator, which is designed to guide startups in developing generative AI applications. The first round kicked off in April 2023, with 10 startups selected to participate in the program. Amazon is...
Nvidia Becomes World’s Most Valuable Company
Chipmaker Nvidia briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company on June 18, cementing its status with further gains in the following days. Its value fell soon after, but it remained among the top three most valuable companies the week after its peak. Nvidia’s peak value of $3.3 trillion came just two weeks after it made headlines for becoming the...
UK Court Rules Lawsuit Against Google Can Go To Trial
London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that a 13.6 billion pound ($17.4 billion) lawsuit against Google for anti-competitive practices can go forward. The claim was brought by Ad Tech Collective Action in November 2022. The group represents a number of publishers in the UK who claim to have suffered financial losses as a result of Google’s alleged...