Technology
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Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing a youth mental health crisis (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing…
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Sources: the US attorney's office for the Western District of Washington sent subpoenas to US-based hedge funds for records of their communications with Binance (Washington Post)
Washington Post: Sources: the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Washington sent subpoenas to US-based hedge funds for…
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Sources: Twitter cuts more staff in its diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a unit mitigating hate speech and harassment (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Twitter cuts more staff in its diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a…
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DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February 2023 (Lauren Leffer/Gizmodo)
Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to…
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The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 (Josh Nicholas/The Guardian)
Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in…
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Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain wary after a brutal, two-year regulatory campaign (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain…
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Marseille-based Volta Medical, whose AI assistant helps surgeons in cardiac ablation procedures, raised a €36M Series B, bringing its total funding to over €70M (Callum Cyrus/Tech.eu)
Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu: Marseille-based Volta Medical, whose AI assistant helps surgeons in cardiac ablation procedures, raised a €36M Series…
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Some companies are taking a liberal interpretation of CA's pay transparency law with wide pay ranges; one Netflix job posting has a pay range of $90K to $900K (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Some companies are taking a liberal interpretation of CA’s pay transparency law with wide pay ranges; one Netflix job…
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Sources: some former Twitter employees in the US finally received their official severance agreements, but offering only one month of base pay as severance (Kylie Robison/Fortune)
Kylie Robison / Fortune: Sources: some former Twitter employees in the US finally received their official severance agreements, but offering…
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PitchBook: in 2022, investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals, almost as much as the investment in the previous five years combined (New York Times)
New York Times: PitchBook: in 2022, investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals, almost as much as…
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