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Instagram creators have launched an AI-driven news aggregation app
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger told the world today what they’ve been doing in the four years since they walked away from their creation. The answer is working on various next-generation social apps, including the one they released today – or at least said people can join an invitation list to sign up ...
TikTok CEO will speak with Congress in March about US national security concerns
As security fears over ByteDance Ltd.’s popular app TikTok swirl around the corridors of U.S. government buildings, Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew is set to speak with Congress in March to attempt to placate those concerns. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers confirmed today that the meeting will take place March 23. ...
BuzzFeed’s stock price soars as company announces AI content push
BuzzFeed Inc.’s shares just rose by as much as 150% as the digital media company announced today that it will start producing a lot more content with OpenAI LLC’s tool, ChatGPT. ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since it was released in 2022. Countless artists, philosophers and technologists have weighed in on what kind ...
Meta says Donald Trump can return to Facebook and Instagram – if he behaves himself
Meta Platforms Inc. surprised many people today when it announced that former President Trump could be back on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks. After the chaos on Capitol Hill in January 2021 and the fact that Trump (pictured) had used social media to air his views on what he said was a rigged ...
Twitter whistleblower tells Congress and FTC that a major security problem hasn’t gone away under Elon Musk
Twitter Inc. has a new whistleblower who has told Congress and the Federal Trade Commission that engineers at the company still have the use of a controversial tool that gives them godlike powers over content. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the story today, the whistleblower is saying that a program called “GodMode” ...
Details emerge on why Apple’s new mixed reality headset won’t come cheap
Apple’s long-awaited mixed reality headset should be coming out sometime in the next few months, according to reports today that added a few more details about what we might see in the company’s first big release since the Apple Watch in 2015. It seems almost certain now that the headset will be called the Apple ...
Netflix’s Reed Hastings exits co-CEO position
Reed Hastings, the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Netflix Inc., today announced that he’s stepping down from his position but will stay on as the company’s executive chairman after 25 years in charge. The former Marine, who had spent some time in Africa with the Peace Corps and was later snubbed by the Massachusetts ...
Amazon hit with fine from OSHA for unsafe working conditions at its warehouses
The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced today that it had found various safety hazards at three warehouses belonging to Amazon.com Inc. Investigators for the OSHA said they inspected three sites at Deltona, Florida; Waukegan, Illinois; and New Windsor, New York. At all three, there were what it called “ergonomic hazards” in breach ...
Meta’s Oversight Board pushes for new nudity rules after accusing company of trans discrimination
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Oversight Board said today that it believes it’s time for Meta to change the rules regarding its adult nudity and sexual content policies. It’s not the first time the board, which polices Meta’s decisions on moderation, has asked for sweeping changes. This time the board says Meta, the parent company of Facebook ...
Ride-hailing giant Didi gets greenlight to sign up more users as China eases tech crackdown
After 18 months in the dark, the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. has been told by the powers that be in China that it can now start signing up new users again. Didi was just one victim in the tech milieu in China that was part of a Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on tech, ...