The updates come after @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal sent letters to six companies — Google, Amazon, DoubleVerify, Integral Ads Science, MRC and TAG — in light of an @AdalyticsHQ report detailing ad tech’s role in monetizing problematic content.
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Government Transparency Erosion: Tech Giants Accountability Crisis
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This is an important and urgent story about the reported erosions of government transparency & accountability. It also has this throwback to the now infamous autoreply journalists got when emailing Twitter for comment after Elon took over:
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Cohere Avoids Publisher Copyright Lawsuits Unlike OpenAI
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So far, Cohere has escaped becoming a defendant in publishers' AI-related copyright lawsuits. (Unlike rivals like OpenAI, Microsoft and others facing a rising number of legal battles.)
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News Media Alliance Files AI Lawsuit in Federal Court
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Here's the full lawsuit filed today in U.S. district court: https://
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Major Publishers Sue Cohere Over AI Copyright Infringement
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There's new AI copyright lawsuit from a group of major publishers. This time the defendant is @cohere
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Senators pressure tech CEOs on illegal content platforms
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Coincidentally, this report comes just days after @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal wrote letters to six CEOs expressing concern about anonymous image-sharing websites flagged for hosting CSAM & other problematic content. More info in my Friday story: https://
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Bret Taylor: Key Connection Between OpenAI and Twitter
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Looks like I'm not the only one thinking of Bret Taylor as a mutual connection between OpenAI & Twitter. Here's a similar POV from @danprimack and @inafried
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CheckMyAds Files Complaint Against TAG Certification Process
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Yesterday, @CheckMyAdsHQ filed a complaint with @tag_today asking about transparency, enforcement and if its certification process. The 10-page report also calls for a public investigation and updates to TAG's certification guidelines & methodology.
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Senators Target Adtech Vendors Enabling CSAM Monetization
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ICYMI: Here's my Friday story about @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI bid amid regulatory scrutiny and momentum
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I also wonder about the timing of this. Is this an effort to divert focus from DOGE as it faces increased scrutiny? OpenAI also just ran a Super Bowl ad, so maybe it's meant to retail that momentum. Here is @WSJ
's story from @jtoonkel and @berber_jin1
. https://
wsj.com/tech/elon-musk
-openai-bid-4af12827
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