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As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
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GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company veteran, as its new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after predecessor Dave Clark announced his resignation — Amazon vet Doug Herrington will become CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores — Amazon has named a new CEO of its retail arm …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, such as powerful new crypto miners, that could pervasively affect their security — The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, raised a $200M Series E extension at a $8.5B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital — Personio — a startup out of Munich, Germany that styles itself as a Workday and ServiceNow focused on the small and medium businesses … | Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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China's Bilibili launches a paywall for some videos, as it seeks to diversify revenue after its market cap dropped from ~$54B in February to $10B+ this month — Chinese video platform Bilibili , has launched a paywall for some of its videos as the company, bruised by Beijing's sweeping crackdown …
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| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
The Khronos Group forms the Metaverse Standards Forum with Nvidia, Meta, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, W3C, and others, seeking to improve interoperability — Interoperability — or lack thereof — is a key issue in the nascent metaverse industry. The Khronos Group aims to solve …
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| Paul Stenquist / New York Times: |
After Tesla shifted entirely to online car sales in 2019, other US automakers could follow suit, seeking lower costs and wider distribution — Tesla shifted to selling cars entirely online in 2019. Now, some established automakers, like Ford, are talking about taking a similar approach.
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