Happy nearly Lunar New Year’s Eve, reader. I’m Diamond Naga Siu, and I’m excited to hop into the Year of the Rabbit. This New Year I’m reflecting on old traditions — I think a lot of new things benefit from the influence of the old and vice versa. A perfect example of this is the viral technology ChatGPT. ChatGPT makes a lot of people nervous (here’s everything you need to know about it, BTW). People more scholarly than I am are worried about cheating, plagiarism, and more issues. But I’m… Source link
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hi again! Wondering if you have a preference between “Friday Eve,” “Pre-Friday” or just stick to Thursday? We are very gently leaning toward Little Friday, but tweet us your favorite post–hump day monikers! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Made by Google: Brian and a group of other consumer tech fans filed 14 stories (!) related to… Source link
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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Investors like to look at a squiggly line known as the yield curve to measure market sentiment about the future. When the line has a neat and upward slope, investors generally go about their days without paying any mind to the line. But when the line loses its shape, the U.S. economy might, uh, tilt into a… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian not afraid to bench long-timers
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Alphabet’s Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images As a part of a recent reorganization within Google Cloud, CEO Thomas Kurian sidelined multiple tenured company veterans — one way he’s is living up to the company’s big expectations when it hired him two years ago. CNBC reported Wednesday that Kurian, in a recent email to staff, announced a broad reorganization within Google… Source link
Read More »App Providers Are ‘All Afraid’ Of Apple’s And Google’s Market Power, Match Group And Spotify Tell Senate
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Executives from Apple and Google fielded accusations of anti-competitive behavior from lawmakers and other technology companies during an antitrust hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee. Much of the testimony was aimed at Apple’s App Store and the Google Play app marketplace, with executives from music streaming platform… Source link
Read More »Should Hollywood Be Afraid Of Fair Use After Google V. Oracle?
Google zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx Thus spoke Zarathustra.1 Well, at least thus spoke the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent Google v. Oracle decision on the fair use defense in copyright. Here is my jaded take on the decision: • The Justices purported to follow the time-honored path of analysis, which proceeds in the following order: (a) first, purport to apply the four factors in the fair use statute, (b) the first factor is interpreted to ask whether the potentially… Source link
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