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Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first US chief brand architect

Threads finally brings messaging to the web

Volkswagen becomes Rivian’s top shareholder, displacing Amazon

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments

September 19, 2024

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a...

Fal.ai, which hosts media-generating AI models, raises $23M from a16z and others

Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it’s raised $23 million in funding from...

Bluesky addresses trust and safety concerns around abuse, spam, and more

The company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiatives focused on dealing with bad actors,...

Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law

A House committee overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill that would require new cars to be built with AM radio...

Fisker reverses course on making Ocean owners pay for recall repairs

The reversal comes as EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. ©...

HTC takes on Apple’s Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision

The Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort. ©...

This Week in AI: Why OpenAI’s o1 changes the AI regulation game

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LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the US — but...

Three new ways to personalize your iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18

iOS 18 offers the most control over the look and feel of your iPhone's user interface than any other version...

U.S. government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director