Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years — NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer …
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than it is now (Monica Anderson/Pew Research Center)
Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than it is now — Most think social media companies have too much influence in politics and censor political viewpoints they object to – both sentiments are growing among Democrats
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops …
Sources describe Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior execs and corporate sponsors at times and, last year, a $7.2M loss on operations (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Sources describe Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior execs and corporate sponsors at times and, last year, a $7.2M loss on operations — A year of financial losses, employee cuts and dirty kitchens — Last spring, founders from all over the world began …
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user’s security.
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user’s security.
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data to aggregators “without customer consent” (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data to aggregators “without customer consent” — The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators …
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data to aggregators “without customer consent” (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data to aggregators “without customer consent” — The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators …
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, allowing ChatGPT Plus users to tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, allowing ChatGPT Plus users to tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats — Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change …
PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computer, raises $940M from Australia and Queensland governments, via share purchases, grants, and loans (Nick Bonyhady/Australian Financial Review)
Nick Bonyhady / Australian Financial Review:
PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computer, raises $940M from Australia and Queensland governments, via share purchases, grants, and loans — Australia will invest $940 million in Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum in a major bet that it will build the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer in Brisbane.
