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Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-7 Drone Facial Recognition

OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-28

OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-27

The US DOJ and Google made their closing arguments in the ad-market antitrust case before Judge Leonie Brinkema, who expressed some skepticism toward both sides (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-26 Google

Sources: Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick, and others are involved in Department of Government Efficiency; Andreessen is acting as a networker for recruitment (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-25

Sources: two congressional Republicans prepare an age verification bill that puts the onus for age verification on app store operators, boosting Meta's campaign (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-22 Republican

Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-20 Trump

Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft AI

Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-15 Google

Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the president-elect to halt a potential US ban of TikTok, which faces a January 19 deadline to divest (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-13 Trump Ban

Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-10 AI

With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-9 Trump Startup Elon Musk

An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female users received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, and saw 40% more Harris campaign videos than men (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-4

Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-1

OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-1

US court docs: in 2022, Apple privately warned TikTok that it had more mature content than was suitable for under-17s and to change its App Store age rating (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 Apple

Chinese and Israeli academics predict the AI boom will increase global e-waste by 3% to 12% by 2030, or up to 2.5M metric tons of additional e-waste each year (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 China Israel AI

CCDH: of 283 X posts in 2024 with false election claims that Community Notes members had responded to, only 20 had notes with enough votes to be publicly shown (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31

Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Donald Trump to outline Amazon's plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 Trump Amazon

Gallup: ~67% of US workers say they never use AI tools at work, while 4% use them daily and say they see benefits in productivity, efficiency, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-30 AI

An analysis of the top 100 US congressional X accounts: since July 2023, Republicans had nearly all the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-30 Republican

An analysis of the top US congressional X accounts: Republicans had nearly all of the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers since July 2023 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-29 Republican

Online influencers are earning thousands for a single post on behalf of groups backing Harris or Trump, with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-28 Trump

Documents show direct ties between Russia's government and a former Florida deputy sheriff behind a network of fake news sites using AI and targeting US voters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-24 Russia AI

A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-24

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach efforts to the tech sector, as it tries to convince that she will chart her own course but avoids specifics on policies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

About $2B has been bet on predicting the next US president on Polymarket, which has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

Instagram rolls out new settings to fight sextortion, like hiding teens' follower lists from potential blackmailers; Meta says the crime is becoming more common (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-17 Instagram

The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-17

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