In case anyone’s having trouble sleeping and wants to read the full 68-page settlement, here you go. (It also details the agreed upon changes Google will make to its App Store.) https://
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
urts.cand.381462/gov.uscourts.cand.381462.522.2.pdf
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Google App Store Settlement: Full 68-Page Document Released
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Google settles $700 million antitrust lawsuit over Play Store practices
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Big tech antitrust news tonight with Google agreeing to pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit related to its Play Store. $630 million will go into a settlement fund consumers and another $70 million will go into a fund for the state attorneys general that sued Google.
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AI-Generated Polling Misinformation Discussed in Senate Hearing
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The AI-generated polling misinformation mentioned at the start of this story is exactly what @amyklobuchar talked about back in May during the Senate’s first AI hearing.
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Active Listening AI: Innovation or Privacy Threat?
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"Active Listening" is both a clever and creepy name for this…
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AI Toy Pricing and Child Safety Concerns Emerge
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Yeah, $99 seems like a fairly reasonable price for something like this. It also has me thinking of Aibo from CES 2018 that was a whopping $2,899! I'll be very curious to hear what privacy and child safety advocates think about these AI toys when they're available for testing…
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Grok AI Tool Name Origin Story and Development
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Great @washingtonpost story about this yesterday by @TaylorLorenz
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washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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OpenAI-Powered Grok Plush Toy Launches at $99 Price Point
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Just in time for the holidays, @CurioBeta has a new plush toy for kids called Grok — featuring the voice of @Grimezsz and AI from @OpenAI
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NOYB Files GDPR Complaint Against Criteo: €40M Fine
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NOYB — which stands for “None Of Your Business” — was also involved with a GDPR complaint filed against the Parisian ad-tech firm Criteo, which resulted in French regulators issuing a €40 million fine this summer.
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X faces GDPR complaint over illegal political ad targeting
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Privacy rights org @NOYBeu filed a new EU complaint claiming X (Twitter) broke GDPR & DSA laws by targeting ads based on users' political & religious beliefs. Here's the irony: NOYB says ads using "sensitive data" were part of a campaign by @EU_Commission
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Google Cloud Presents AI Solutions at Applied Summit
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Today is Google Cloud's Applied AI Summit, where execs are talking about ways to use Google's AI capabilities via Gemini, Vertex AI, Duet AI, etc. https://
cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/summit-
applied-ml-summit-23/watch?talk=kn_generativeai
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