PSA: A federal judge will hear oral arguments tomorrow morning in @nytimes
' ongoing AI copyright lawsuit against @OpenAI & @Microsoft
. The arguments taking place in a Manhattan courtroom are part of OpenAI & Microsoft's efforts to get the claims dismissed.
@martyswant
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Federal Judge Hears OpenAI Microsoft Copyright Lawsuit Arguments
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Bell Acquires Outfront Canadian Assets at Premium Valuation
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Twice the price Bell paid last year for Outfront's Canadian assets!
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CES 2025 AI News Trends Insights Weekly Briefing
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Strange not being in Las Vegas last week for @CES
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Meta Ends DEI Programs Immediately Under New Leadership
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In other Meta news, Meta's ending its DEI programs effective immediately, reports @mikeallen and @sarafischer
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axios.com/2025/01/10/met
a-dei-programs-employees-trump
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Zuckerberg Discusses Meta’s Updated Content Moderation Policies
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Joe Rogan just released a three-hour interview with Mark Zuckerberg. I'm not finished listening to the entire thing yet, but here's something Mark mentioned related to Meta's newly updated content moderation policies/practices. (Transcribed for clarity without filler words.)
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Section 230 Debate: Should Tech Platforms Arbitrate Truth?
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One more quote for now from 2021 when U.S. Rep. Tim Wahlberg (R-Mich.) asked Zuck & @Jack if U.S. laws like Section 230 should allow platforms like Facebook and Twitter to be the "arbiters of truth."
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Facebook’s Fact-Checking Program Promises Under Scrutiny
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Here's what he said in 2021 about Facebook's "industry-leading fact-checking program." "People want to see accurate information on Facebook, and so do we. That’s why we have made fighting misinformation and providing people with authoritative information a priority."
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Meta Ends Fact-Checking: Zuckerberg’s Congressional Testimony History
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In light of Meta's plans to end fact-checking, I went back through Zuckerberg's past Congressional testimonies to see what he said about the topic while in the House and Senate in 2018, 2020 and 2021. Here's a snippet from his 2018 opening statement:
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DOJ and FTC File Amicus Brief in Epic v Google Trial
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The @TheJusticeDept and @FTC just filed an amicus brief in the Epic v Google trial. The filing mentions remedies, the need to address Google's network effects, refutes Google's market definitions and says Google shouldn't be able to use out-of-market competition as a defense.
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Reddit Pro Trends Tracks Brand Mentions Using ML NLP
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Reddit Pro Trends aims to help marketers track brand mentions, topics and categories across platform conversations based on keywords and phrases. It uses ML techniques like named entity recognition (a subset of NLP) to track >100,000 "smart" keywords.