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Many, if not most, generative AI tech vendors argue that fair use entitles them to train AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet — even if they don’t get permission from the rightsholders. But some vendors, such as OpenAI, are hedging their bets — perhaps wary of the outcome of pending relevant lawsuits. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If you tried clicking a link on X and got redirected to an error page with spilled ice cream, you’re not alone. It seems that the platform’s legacy shortlink redirection tool, t.co, is broken. In owner Elon Musk’s effort to completely rebrand every last bit of Twitter to X, maybe the T in the URL […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Deadnaming and misgendering trans people is now explicitly banned on Discord, per the platform’s updated hateful conduct policy. Discord’s hateful conduct policy defines hate speech as “any expression that degrades, vilifies, or dehumanized individuals, incites intense feelings of hostility towards defined groups, or promotes harm based on protected characteristics.” The expanded policy, which was internally […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other AcitivityPub protocol supported networks. “Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I’m pretty optimistic about this,” Zuckerberg said in a post. Developing… © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

World leaders finally recognized that fossil fuel use needs to end if we're to prevent catastrophic climate change, a welcome admission that's been far too long in coming. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

We fed a few thousand pitch decks to an AI, analyzed them all, and found the most common problems are for founders raising early-stage funding. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Graysky, one of the first third-party apps for the Twitter/X competitor Bluesky, is launching a subscription service with its latest release, as a means of generating revenue for its app by offering paid access to features that Bluesky itself doesn’t yet support. In the initial release, users will be able to personalize the app with […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Gift giving. It’s top of mind this time of year, and we’re here to suggest two ways you can spread joy this holiday season. First, never — and we mean never — give the “gift” of fruit cake. Second, give your startup dream the gift of growth. Treat yourself and your business with a pass […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

At the risk of dating myself, I’m old enough to remember the days when Best Buy had a formidable rival in superstore chains: Circuit City. A cross between an appliance store (at least until it stopped selling appliances) and all-around electronics retailers, Circuit City was the place to be for nerdy, tech-obsessed kids like myself […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order. In its law enforcement guidelines updated this week, Apple said law enforcement and government agencies can now obtain push notification records with a court order or a search warrant, both of […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Spotify has reversed course on a decision to exit the Uruguayan market, after gaining assurances from the government that copyright law changes it’s introducing won’t result in Spotify incurring extra costs. For those not following all the goings-ons in Uruguay’s music-streaming scene, the saga unfolded something like this. Last October, Uruguay passed a new law […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Instagram is launching the ability for users to post video Notes, the company announced on Wednesday. Notes is Instagram’s status feature that launched a year ago. Up until now, you could only post text or emojis to your status update. Now, you can post a two-second looping video Note that will be visible to your mutual […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a new app to do so. Globetrotter is today introducing a location-based travel photos app that lets you look back on your past travels and share your memories and stats out to other social apps, like […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Will Snap's recent good fortunes benefit X? With new numbers on hand, let's take a look at X's financials and its valuation. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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After announcing its family of Gemini models last week and bringing it to its Bard chatbot experience, Google is now bringing Gemini to developers by launching a slew of new and updated services today. One of these services is AI Studio — which was previously known as MakerSuite. AI Studio is a web-based tool for […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we sit down with a key topic and dive deep into it. You may recall that Automattic bought all-in-one messaging […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

What’s next for Texts.com? The all-in-one messaging app was acquired this fall by WordPress.com owner Automattic for $50 million, marking the company’s first official expansion into the world of private messaging — outside of its startup investments, at least, which have included Apple’s recent foe Beeper and Element, a Matrix-powered app. Like Beeper, Texts.com is also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →