James Farrell, Author at SiliconANGLE

AI

Bipartisan bill aims to ban kids under 13 from using social media

By James Farrell Apr 26, 2023

A bipartisan bill introduced today would stop anyone in the U.S. under 13 years of age from using social media as well as put limits on all young people from getting onto such platforms.…

NEWS

UK bill aims to tackle big tech’s dominance in digital markets

By James Farrell Apr 25, 2023

The U.K. announced today that its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill will crack down on the dominance of some of the world’s leading tech companies. Despite mammoth efforts by big tech to stop the…

NEWS

Supreme Court to hear cases involving disputes over public officials blocking people on social media

By James Farrell Apr 24, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two First Amendment rights cases in which public officials blocked people on their social media accounts. The cases both related to a case involving former president Donald Trump,…

NEWS

The purge of Twitter’s blue checkmarks has begun

By James Farrell Apr 20, 2023

Today was the end of an era for many people when they discovered that Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk had finally made good on his promise to remove the platform’s blue checkmarks. It has…

AI

Google employees say Bard AI was pushed out despite ethical flaws

By James Farrell Apr 19, 2023

A group of Google LLC employees working on Bard says the company rushed to release the chatbot in spite of obvious ethical issues, according to a report today by Bloomberg. Google may have been…

AI

Reddit to charge for access to its API to counter free data scraping by AI companies

By James Farrell Apr 18, 2023

As big tech races to develop the most advanced generative artificial intelligence chatbots, Reddit Inc. today announced its treasure trove of data will no longer come free. The company said it will now start…

NEWS

Twitter will start labeling tweets that have been restricted for hateful speech

By James Farrell Apr 17, 2023

Twitter Inc. announced today that it will now effectively let people know their tweet has been “shadowbanned” when it has violated the company’s Hateful Conduct policy. In a blog post, Twitter said that under…

NEWS

In surprise interview with BBC, Elon Musk says owning Twitter at times has been ‘painful’

By James Farrell Apr 12, 2023

Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk sat with the BBC on Tuesday night at the company’s offices in San Francisco in what turned out to be a fairly candid interview. In the 90 minutes that…

Apps

Substack releases a platform that looks a whole lot like Twitter

By James Farrell Apr 11, 2023

Substack Inc. today launched Notes, a platform where Substack creators can interact with subscribers and where the entire experience looks very much like Twitter. The differences are only in the language. Users don’t post…

AI

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says chat AI is coming to search… at some point

By James Farrell Apr 6, 2023

Conversational artificial intelligence is coming to the world’s largest search engine, according to the Google LLC boss, but when that happens, he’s not prepared to say. In an interview published by the Wall Street Journal…

James Farrell

UK bill aims to tackle big tech’s dominance in digital markets

Supreme Court to hear cases involving disputes over public officials blocking people on social media

The purge of Twitter’s blue checkmarks has begun

Google employees say Bard AI was pushed out despite ethical flaws

Reddit to charge for access to its API to counter free data scraping by AI companies

Twitter will start labeling tweets that have been restricted for hateful speech

In surprise interview with BBC, Elon Musk says owning Twitter at times has been ‘painful’

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