How “made for advertising” sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA — Industry leaders want brands to shun ‘MFA’ websites. Others think more nuance is needed.
Friday, April 12, 2024
How "made for advertising" sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a $979M lawsuit representing more than 1,500 developers alleging that App Store's 30% commission is unfair (Reuters)
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a $979M lawsuit representing more than 1,500 developers alleging that App Store's 30% commission is unfair — Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf …
Thursday, April 11, 2024
An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more — In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen calls its new platform, which tackles contract management beyond …
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent to teens via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out in the coming months (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent to teens via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out in the coming months — Obscured photos and warnings will discourage users from exchanging nude photos with potential strangers
Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI — - OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
Sources: Foxconn is considering a new rotating CEO system, a major and unusual overhaul to nurture talent; a source says the plan is a response to investors (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
Sources: Foxconn is considering a new rotating CEO system, a major and unusual overhaul to nurture talent; a source says the plan is a response to investors — Apple supplier Foxconn is considering introducing a rotating chief executive system in a major overhaul of its management structure designed …
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS — Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling the cloud-based media collaboration service with oodles of new workflow …
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock slumped 36% since March 26, wiping out $2.8B in market value as retail traders sell; Trump's stake is now worth ~$2.9B (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock slumped 36% since March 26, wiping out $2.8B in market value as retail traders sell; Trump's stake is now worth ~$2.9B — - DJT has struggled to retain the attention of retail traders — Paper windfall for Donald Trump drops by $1.6 billion in weeks
Monday, April 8, 2024
The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment (Bloomberg)
The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment — - World's top chipmaker to add capacity with third fab in state — Raimondo says latest US package aimed at AI, national security
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Elon Musk says X is "lifting all restrictions" it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block "certain popular accounts" and is defying the court's ruling (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court's ruling — Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute — - The centerpiece is money for ‘technological infrastructure’ — Canada has yet to pass law regulating artificial intelligence
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6 — Apple's search for a bold new product category is back on, and it includes a foray into robots.
A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS (Nikkei Asia)
A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS — Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January — Huawei Technologies may be close to succeeding where Microsoft …
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising — - The accelerator is requiring limited partners invest in all three of its new funds, a somewhat bold move in the current environment.
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (New York Times)
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text — OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Neuralink gets US FDA approval to implant its brain chip in a second person; source: FDA signed off on proposed fixes like embedding wires deeper into the brain (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : Neuralink gets US FDA approval to implant its brain chip in a second person; source: FDA signed off...
-
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
-
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
