Archive for December 20th, 2008
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Posted by: amygdala on December 20, 2008
- Getty asks London's High Court to stop UK sales of Stable Diffusion, accusing Stability AI of copyright infringement for training its AI model on Getty's images (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
- Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving, the second top safety executive to leave the company this week (Wall Street Journal)
- Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn's targeted ads allegedly violating users' privacy (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
- What to expect at WWDC: Apple XR headset that a source says is part "status symbol" and part "future of the computer", 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, watchOS 10, more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Malaysia plans to let carriers decide whether to work with Huawei and other Chinese companies for its second 5G network, but will consider EU and US concerns (Anisah Shukry/Bloomberg)
- Artifact, the news app founded by Instagram's co-founders, will use a GPT-4 model to rewrite the headlines of articles marked as clickbait by the Artifact team (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers (Bloomberg)
- At Computex, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, and others bet on OLED displays to revive PC sales, despite higher costs; Samsung controls 99%+ of the OLED laptop market (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
- Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy in May after failing to close a €90M round (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
- Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren't using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don't use it regularly for work (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)
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