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As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Note: I've covered everything in this Article across a number of other Articles and Updates; however, over the course …
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince says the crypto lender “signed a term sheet with FTX to secure a $250M revolving credit facility” — - BlockFi secures $250 million revolving credit facility from crypto exchange FTX. — The crypto lender says the deal ‘bolsters our balance sheet and platform strength.’
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company veteran, as its new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after predecessor Dave Clark announced his resignation — Amazon vet Doug Herrington will become CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores — Amazon has named a new CEO of its retail arm …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
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| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
The Khronos Group forms the Metaverse Standards Forum with Nvidia, Meta, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, W3C, and others, seeking to improve interoperability — Interoperability — or lack thereof — is a key issue in the nascent metaverse industry. The Khronos Group aims to solve …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds new Instagram and Facebook monetization tools, and will take no revenue cut from paid events, fan subs, badges, and Bulletin until at least 2024 — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is rolling out more ways for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram …
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| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden raised a $130M Series B led by Electric Capital and Greylock at a $1.6B valuation, after a $27M Series A in March 2022 — - Magic Eden has scored a $1.6 billion valuation in its latest funding round. — The Solana-based NFT marketplace plans to launch on more blockchains.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sources: three Better.com senior executives resigned, following other executive departures, mass layoffs, and a lawsuit alleging the company misled investors — Three more senior executives of digital mortgage lender Better.com have resigned, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.| Wikimedia Foundation: |
Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid service for reusing and sourcing Wikimedia content in high volume, announces Google and the Internet Archive as its first clients — San Francisco, CA, USA ― Wikimedia Enterprise, a first-of-its-kind commercial product designed for companies that reuse …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, raised a $200M Series E extension at a $8.5B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital — Personio — a startup out of Munich, Germany that styles itself as a Workday and ServiceNow focused on the small and medium businesses … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter plans to bring back its Chirp Developer Conference on November 16, 2022, in San Francisco; the previous Chirp conference was held in 2010 — As Twitter continues to woo developers back to its platform, the company today announced the return of its developer conference, Chirp.| Financial Times: |
South Korean prosecutors ban “dozens” of current and former Terraform Labs employees from leaving the country amid a probe into UST's and LUNA's collapse — South Korean prosecutors take action as they investigate embattled company behind the $40bn luna wipeout
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| Jack Daleo / FreightWaves: |
Germany-based Wingcopter, a delivery drone startup for transporting medical supplies, raised a $42M Series A extension, tripling its total funding to $60M+ — Germany's Wingcopter, known for using drones to deliver medical supplies, is headed for a new frontier — grocery.
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| Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: |
London-based CloudNC, which seeks to automate manufacturing using AI, raised a $45M Series B led by Autodesk; other backers included Lockheed Martin and Atomico — UK startup CloudNC has clinched the backing of two large US firms, software company Autodesk Inc. and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp., in a fresh funding round.
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PR Newswire, FinSMEs, UKTN | UK Tech News, and CloudNC
| Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
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