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12 Aug

Google’s Antitrust Loss Offers Clues to Apple in Fight With Regulators

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Apple’s potential loss of its $20 billion search deal with Google may only be the start of its antitrust headaches. But first... Source link lol

11 Aug

The Race Is On to Build The Next Profitable Streaming Service

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The five major Hollywood streaming services reported a collective profit of $3.2 billion in the first six months of this year. Source link lol

10 Aug

Susan Wojcicki, Internet Pioneer at Google, YouTube, Dies at 56

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Susan Wojcicki, an early Google executive and long-time head of its YouTube video service who shaped how fortunes and fame are created on the internet, has died. She was 56. Wojcicki died after a two-year battle with cancer, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of YouTube parent Alphabet Inc. Source link lol

10 Aug

YouTube Hate Video Remained Up Even After UK Riot Conviction

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On the evening of August 5, Aaron Johnson arrived at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport, northern England. The 32-year-old man from a nearby area, had come to see what he was calling a “migrant hotel.”’ “This is civil unrest, you know what I’m saying,” he told viewers of his YouTube livestream, which would ultimately number more than 41,000 before it was removed. Source link lol

10 Aug

Ex-Twitter Chairman Sues Elon Musk’s X for $20 Million in Shares

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Former Twitter Chairman Omid Kordestani sued the social media company, claiming that billionaire owner Elon Musk is refusing to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares he is owed.Kordestani served as the company’s executive chairman from 2015 to 2020 and stayed on the board for two more years, until Musk bought the platform for $44 billion. He said in the complaint that the bulk of his compensation was stock, which he says Musk is refusing to pay out. Source link lol

09 Aug

Has Burning Man Peaked?

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For the first time in more than a decade, Burning Man is struggling to sell all of its tickets. But first... Source link lol

09 Aug

Tech Founders and Investors Confront a Wave of AI Skepticism

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One early AI leader thinks we may be entering a “sobering” moment. Source link lol

08 Aug

Musk’s Riot Provocations Prompt UK to Seek Tougher Online Rules

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Keir Starmer called for a “mature conversation” with social media companies to limit malicious content that’s stoked days of rioting in the UK. Instead, he found himself in an escalating online confrontation with Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X.Now, the UK is mulling steps to tighten the regulation of platforms like Musk’s — and finding it has few levers, especially when the owner is a major amplifier of misinformation. One step would be to revive a key provision in the Online Safety Act, set to be implemented later this year, giving authorities more power to force social media companies…

08 Aug

Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

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Everyone involved agrees on the basic facts about March 8, 2022 — a venture capitalist and a startup co-founder spent a big night on the sidelines of a Miami conference. There, agreement ends. Cailin Hardell says the middle-aged VC investor and another CEO backed by his firm got her drunk and sexually assaulted her. They maintain the encounter was consensual. After Hardell reported the incident to the head of Blumberg Capital LLC, she claims in a lawsuit, the firm refused to provide more funding for her company, Segmed, unless she agreed to keep quiet about her complaint, and when she…

08 Aug

Oracle, Google Veterans Join Nvidia-Backed CoreWeave to Lead AI

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CoreWeave Inc. hired two senior executives from Google and Oracle Corp. to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure after the Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud computing company raised billions of dollars from investors.Chen Goldberg, who most recently served as general manager and vice president of engineering at Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit, will be the senior vice president of engineering, according to Brannin McBee, co-founder and chief development officer at CoreWeave. Sachin Jain, who was Oracle’s senior vice president of AI infrastructure and product management, will serve as chief operator officer, McBee said. They start next week. Source link lol