Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise
Techmeme
March 1, 2024, 5:05 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Get our daily newsletter and never miss a story!   ⓧ Newsletter

Top News

Candace Cheung / Courthouse News Service:
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit  —  OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
More: Superior Court of California, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, PC Gamer, New York Times, CNBC, Newcomer, CoinGape, San Francisco Business Times, MSPoweruser, InvestorPlace, Axios, Android Headlines, crypto.news, CCN.com, CoinDesk, Boing Boing, Cointelegraph, Marcus on AI, Ben's Bites, Newser, Interesting Engineering, Coinspeaker, Dexerto, WinBuzzer, International Business Times, Thurrott, Tech Startups, The Hollywood Reporter, Analytics India Magazine, The Information, Neowin, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Hardware, Watcher Guru, and Financial Times
Threads: @lou1sgray, @kalihays1, @pauloflaherty, @reckless1280, @firerock31, @nixcraft, @hmautomate, @reksveks, @kfeinleib, @tomwarrenuk, @karaswisher, @yonetteajoseph, @tenured_radical, and @stefancarter66.  Mastodon: @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social
Bluesky: @euphemistic.bsky.social and @drewstephenson.bsky.social
X: @davemcclure, @anammostarac, @ianbremmer, @binarybits, @binarybits, @danprimack, @fakepsyho, @scobleizer, @maddierenbarger, @shakeelhashim, @growing_daniel, @andrewcurran_, @8teapi, @bindureddy, @cromwellian, @basedbeffjezos, @kepano, @luizajarovsky, @danprimack, @zachtratar, @andrewrsorkin, @alexandrosm, @carnage4life, @jason_kint, @xdaily, and @ericnewcomer
LinkedIn: Matt Beale, Tejas Kumar, Sholto Maud, and Emmanuel Maggiori
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/news, r/OpenAI, r/OpenAI, r/law, r/aiwars, r/singularity, r/teslainvestorsclub, r/ArtistHate, and r/singularity
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Filing: Elon Musk says OpenAI is “not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft” and claims GPT-4 constitutes an AGI
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk might be suing OpenAI because he is a troll and has a grudge, but his lawsuit puts a spotlight on the empty humanitarian posturing by AI businesses
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture  —  Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Apple says users and a number of government agencies in the EU raised concerns about the security risks of allowing app sideloading on iOS to comply with DMA  —  A number of government agencies in the European Union and elsewhere have voiced concerns about security risks as Apple (AAPL.O) …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Threads says it will make its API broadly available to developers by June and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite  —  Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google confirms it is blocking rooted Android phones from using RCS, citing the need to abide by the RCS standard's “operating measures” to stop spam and abuse  —  In recent weeks, Android users with rooted or bootloader unlocked phones have found that RCS in Google Messages does not work.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month  —  After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option …
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of “summaries” and “workbooks” that claim to be companions to human-authored books  —  Authors decry an “explosion” of knockoff books on Amazon as the company struggles to keep up.
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
In a hearing, a federal judge sounded skeptical of X's claims in its lawsuit against CCDH; an expert says it is “a SLAPP suit disguised as a contractual suit”  —  X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform.
Bloomberg:
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google pulls 12+ popular apps from the Play Store in India for persistently not complying with billing policies, escalating a three-year dispute in the country  —  Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps including recruitment platform Naukri, matrimony service Shaadi …

Sponsor Posts

Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model  —  Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy.  Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
Introducing the UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation  —  UiPath's new platform empowers enterprises to experience the full power of AI to transform industries
Zoho:
Automate recurring activities with Zoho One's RPA addition  —  Robotic Process Automation (RPA) automates manual and routine tasks for businesses by using digital robots that replicate human behaviour.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:
 Inside Devin: The world's first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company's code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Techmeme Ride Home:
 Omnibus Week Of 04/28
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Sponsor this podcast
Hard Fork:
 The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Logan Bartlett Show:
 Ben Lamm (Founder & CEO, Colossal Biosciences) On The Breakthroughs Making De-Extinction Actually Possible
A podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett, an investor at Redpoint Ventures, covering tech with industry insiders.
Subscribe to The Logan Bartlett Show.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
 Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Add your postcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:05 PM ET, March 1, 2024.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Associated Press:
President Trump signed an EO on May 1 instructing CPB and other agencies to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting

Washington Post:
After VOA director said staff can begin a “phased return”, an appeals court stays the preliminary injunction that allowed VOA and USAGM staffers to go back

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Hands-on with Meta's Movie Mate, a chatbot that provides users trivia and other content during a movie, rolled out for one night for Blumhouse's M3GAN rerelease

More News

Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoes what would have been one of the US' most restrictive bans on minors' social media use, says he is working on an alternative
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership

Earlier Picks

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to Meta, as part of Meta's ongoing litigation to protect WhatsApp
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft launches Copilot for Finance in public preview, helping users reconcile data in Excel, speed up the collections process in Outlook, and more
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that has caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter