Bloomberg:Olo, a provider of food-ordering software for restaurants, closed up 39% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO, valuing the company at $4.93B — Olo Inc., the food-ordering software company whose board members include Shake Shack Inc. founder Danny Meyer …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:AT&T says it will no longer exempt HBO Max from mobile data caps starting March 25, after a US court upheld CA’s net neutrality law; change will apply beyond CA — – AT&T will no longer exempt viewing of its HBO Max streaming service from data caps after a federal court upheld…
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Sam Altman:AI will drive a new tech revolution, applying Moore’s law to everything; to rebalance the newly-created wealth, society should favor taxing capital over labor — My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe.
Reuters:Sources: ByteDance is considering launching a group messaging feature on TikTok this year; ByteDance’s Douyin has had group messaging since 2019 — SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) – Video-sharing platform TikTok may launch a group messaging feature this year, people with knowledge …
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet:Mozilla’s AI ethics advocacy group proposes algorithmic bias detection program modeled on bug bounty programs — Deborah Raji is researching ways to apply the models that underpin bug bounty programs to algorithmic harm detection. — When it comes to detecting bias in algorithms …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Snap says it acquired Berlin-based Fit Analytics, which helps shoppers find the right-sized apparel and footwear online and works with 18K retailers — “Snap, Inc. is a camera company,” Snap notes on its homepage, and while a lot of its effort up to now have been about using that camera ethos …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:FCC fines two Texas-based telemarketers a record $225M for making around 1B automated robocalls in 2019 — – The Federal Communications Commission fined two Texas-based telemarketers $225 million on Wednesday for making automated sales phone calls, or robocalls, in 2019.
Jonty Wareing / @jonty:[Thread] Most NFTs’ JSON metadata files point to normal URLs or IPFS gateway URLs run by an NFT startup; if the startups shutter, those NFTs will likely break — Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT’s actually reference the media you’re “buying” and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon
Todd Feathers / VICE:Disabled internet users say accessibility service AccessiBe, used by 120K+ sites, and others make sites less usable and use the fear of lawsuits to drive sales — AccessiBe aims to make the internet fully accessible to the visually impaired by 2025—but activists say the company’s AI is making things worse.
Substack Blog:Substack shares details on its Pro program after criticism, saying 30+ writers with a “diverse set of viewpoints” have signed up, none of whom are anti-trans — In recent days, we’ve heard from some people who are concerned that we might have been using Substack Pro …