Apple just received a very clear message that it still has a lot to do if it hopes to comply with Europe's new digital antitrust rules.
Why it matters: The tech giant, which has built its entire business around its own closed-world ecosystem, will now have to decide exactly how far it's willing to change in order to operate in Europe.
A Federal Trade Commission staff report released Thursday found that nine leaders in the social media and video streaming industry, including Meta and X, conducted "vast surveillance" of consumers to monetize their personal information.
Why it matters: Not only did companies capitalize off of users' data, the report alleged, but they also failed to protect consumers, including minors, and used collection, minimization and retention practices that were "woefully inadequate."
An Alaska man was arrested for allegedly threatening to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members in retaliation for decisions he disagreed with, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
The big picture: Panos Anastasiou, 76, faces 22 federal charges for sending hundreds of violent messages to the high court with threats of assassination via torture, hanging and firearms, according to an indictment filed Wednesday.
The big picture: The agency told Bloomberg it was withholding records related to Musk's post because they could "interfere with enforcement proceedings" when the news outlet filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents.
CEOs are trading carefully crafted, milquetoast public personas for ones that are more real with the hope of forging connections with employees, customers and other key audiences.
Why it matters: The personal brands of CEOs and founders are just as important as the company's brand itself.
YouTube is making a series of product updates, many of which incorporate AI to make content creation easier.
Why it matters: The platform is working to ensure its dominance in user-generated video content while its competitor TikTok is in peril and its parent company faces larger issues in court.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company's new o1 model — or Strawberry, as the project was code-named — is nowhere near full ripeness.
State of play: Speaking at a T-Mobile event Wednesday in San Francisco, Altman likened where o1 is today to where OpenAI's language models were when GPT-2 came out in 2019. He said to expect massive improvements in the coming years, similar to the path from GPT-2 to the current GPT-4.
Elon Musk's X became available to many users in Brazil on Wednesday after an update to the social media site's communications network inadvertently bypassed a ban imposed by the country's top judge last month.
The big picture: Reuters notes that some Brazilian users who flocked back to the site thought Musk had sought to circumvent Justice Alexandre de Moraes' ruling prohibiting X in Latin America's largest nation, but the site's global government affairs team said that its return was "inadvertent."
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