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Substack now lets anyone publish posts, even if they don’t have a newsletter

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Substack is opening up to more users with its recent announcement that anyone can now publish content on its platform without setting up a publication. With the change, Substack is likely looking to attract more types of writers and content creators, not just people who are interested in creating regularly distributed long-form written pieces. While […]

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Elon Musk’s X taken to court in Ireland for grabbing EU user data to train Grok without consent

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Elon Musk’s X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans’ data to train AI models, RTE reported late on Tuesday. The development relates to the social media platform’s decision last month to process user data to train its “Grok” AI model without notifying or asking people if they’re okay with that. Last

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X files suit against advertising groups over ‘systematic illegal boycott’

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).  In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations – along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever – of what

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Zuckerberg and Jensen show off their friendship, while an AI necklace covets yours

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A fireside chat between Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg at SIGGRAPH 2024 took some unexpected turns. What started as a conversation about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg’s vision of an AI chatbot future quickly became a more casual affair — including a swap of custom-made jackets, a rare F-bomb from the Meta CEO,

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Disinformation may ‘go nuclear’ rather than ‘go viral,’ researchers say

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We say something “goes viral” because we tend to think of rumors and disinformation spreading the way that an infection spreads. But these days it may be more accurate to say something “goes nuclear,” according to a new paper that models disinfo as a form of fission reaction. As common wisdom had it even before

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MatPat, the first big YouTuber to successfully exit his company, is lobbying for creators on Capitol Hill

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Matthew Patrick’s most unique achievement isn’t that he grew his YouTube account into a multi-channel media business with over 40 million subscribers. It’s that he managed to sell his company and successfully transition away from a career that’s so hard, both emotionally and logistically, to leave. In an emotional video posted earlier this year, Patrick

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