Tag: In Brief

Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping

What do the actor Kevin Bacon, the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the musician Robert Smith, and the journalist and historian Sidney Blumenthal have in...

Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities

Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos,...

Meta’s smart glasses outsell traditional Ray-Bans in some stores, even before AI features roll out

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are the top selling product in 60% of all Ray-Ban stores throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa,...

Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages

Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books...

Microsoft could end up with substantial equity in the restructured, for-profit OpenAI

How much equity in OpenAI will Microsoft get once the former becomes a for-profit company? That’s the multi-billion-dollar question — one the two...

Amazon indicates employees can quit if they don’t like its return-to-office mandate

AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. The Amazon executive recently told employees who...