Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand is off to a rocky start
Musk and his social media company are already facing potential legal challenges and user criticism over the new branding.
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AI Firms Strike Deal With White House on Safety Guidelines
The White House announced that the Biden administration had reached a voluntary agreement with seven companies building artificial intelligence products to establish guidelines meant to ensure the...
Preserving diversity in healthcare after the US Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling
Elon Musk’s sudden move to transform Twitter, the social media company he purchased for $44 billion last year, into an entity obliquely named after the 24th letter of the alphabet, struck even his...
Images posted on internet are training AI algorithms, Photo Team hears from computer scientist
Elon Musk’s sudden move to transform Twitter, the social media company he purchased for $44 billion last year, into an entity obliquely named after the 24th letter of the alphabet, struck even his...
Free Money Is the Latest Strategy for GOP Presidential Campaigns
The political fundraising appeal has been completely reversed: Some long-shot Republican presidential candidates will now give you money.
Texas’ TikTok ban hit with First Amendment lawsuit
Texas’s ban on TikTok at state institutions violates the First Amendment, claims a lawsuit filed Thursday by a group of academics and civil society researchers.
The TLDR Act: Mandated Infrastructure for a Consumer-Centric and Transparent Internet
Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) reintroduced the Terms-of-service Labeling, Design and Readability (TLDR) Act. Put...
Meta’s new app Threads reached over 100 million users in less than a week.
New Twitter alternative, Threads, could eclipse rivals like Mastodon and Blue Sky
As Twitter faces mounting backlash over its latest policy changes, alternative apps like Blue Sky and Mastodon are standing by to welcome disgruntled users of the Elon Musk-owned blogging platform....
Meta Launches Twitter Rival 'Threads'
Twitter has a new competitor. Meta, which already owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has launched its own microblogging platform called 'Threads'. 30 million users have allegedly already signed...