Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI — Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products, citing Section 230 protections (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products, citing Section 230 protections — A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay (EBAY.O) of violating environmental laws by allowing …
YouTube reaches a deal with SESAC that will bring back songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and others that were removed over the weekend in the US (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
YouTube reaches a deal with SESAC that will bring back songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and others that were removed over the weekend in the US — YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend.
CA Gov. Newsom signed AB 2013 into law, requiring those behind publicly available generative AI models to post a summary of the datasets used to train them (Jeffrey D. Neuburger/National Law Review)
Jeffrey D. Neuburger / National Law Review:
CA Gov. Newsom signed AB 2013 into law, requiring those behind publicly available generative AI models to post a summary of the datasets used to train them — by: Jeffrey D. Neuburger of Proskauer Rose LLP – New Media and Technology Law Blog — RELATED PRACTICES & JURISDICTIONS
The FCC announces a $31.5M settlement with T-Mobile over four data breaches, in 2021, 2022, and 2023, that compromised personal info of millions of US customers (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FCC announces a $31.5M settlement with T-Mobile over four data breaches, in 2021, 2022, and 2023, that compromised personal info of millions of US customers — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a $31.5 million settlement with T-Mobile over multiple data breaches …
Thoughts on OpenAI’s recent fundraise reports and how Apple reportedly backing out, while still using ChatGPT for Apple Intelligence, may lead to awkward deals (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Thoughts on OpenAI’s recent fundraise reports and how Apple reportedly backing out, while still using ChatGPT for Apple Intelligence, may lead to awkward deals — Thinking through their numbers and those deal terms… While they published this on Friday – before the subsequent WSJ report …
Oura says it will see annual sales double to roughly $500M this year; sources: it plans to debut a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Oura says it will see annual sales double to roughly $500M this year; sources: it plans to debut a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October — – CEO expects ‘healthy’ growth, but has no imminent IPO plans — New model will have improved battery life and thinner design
Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others — It’s been quite the year for gaming industry exec Pany Haritatos. — Last month, he quietly closed an oversubscribed $28 million Series …
California enacts an internet-connected car data privacy law to curb domestic violence, requiring carmakers to make it easier to submit restraining orders, more (Reuters)
Reuters:
California enacts an internet-connected car data privacy law to curb domestic violence, requiring carmakers to make it easier to submit restraining orders, more — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that requires automakers selling internet-connected cars …
US NHTSA: Cruise must pay a $1.5M fine, submit a corrective action plan, and face enhanced oversight after a 2023 crash with a pedestrian was not fully reported (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters:
US NHTSA: Cruise must pay a $1.5M fine, submit a corrective action plan, and face enhanced oversight after a 2023 crash with a pedestrian was not fully reported — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday that General Motors’ (GM.N) self-driving car unit Cruise …
