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By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) – Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk on Monday disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc, worth nearly $3 billion, making him the micro-blogging site’s largest shareholder and triggering a rise of more than 27% in the company’s shares. Musk’s move, revealed in a regulatory filing, comes on the heels of his tweet that he was giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, while questioning Twitter’s commitment to free speech. He also started a poll asking Twitter… Source link

Google has just announced the next stage of trials of its Privacy Sandbox proposal — focused on ads relevance and measurement. The Sandbox refers to an evolving — and now very closely overseen — ad targeting tech stack which Google has proposed for replacing tracking cookie based targeted advertising in Chrome by (at the earliest) the second half of 2023 with alternatives which it argues will be better for users’ privacy yet still effective for generating ad revenue. Writing in… Source link

Ex-Google AI skeptic Timnit Gebru starts anew | Insider Q&A | Fortune … Source link

When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence. That was before Google pushed her out of the company more than a year ago. Now Gebru is trying to make change from the outside as the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or DAIR. Born to Eritrean parents in Ethiopia, Gebru spoke with The Associated Press recently about how poorly Big Tech’s AI… Source link

It’s no surprise that Elizabeth Holmes’ co-defendant and former boyfriend, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, came out swinging against her Tuesday in opening statements to his criminal fraud trial, defense lawyers say. “Sunny Balwani did not start Theranos. He did not control Theranos,” Balwani’s attorney, Steve Cazares, told jurors in opening arguments, The New York Times and other media organizations reported. The description of Balwani’s role countered that of prosecutors, who Source link

As NFL coaches and executives touch down in Indianapolis this week for the league’s annual scouting combine, a multitude of quarterback conversations await. And the vast majority of them — for the next week or so — will have little to do with the 2022 draft prospects. As one league executive framed it Monday: “There’s three of the top five, six, seven quarterbacks in the league who are on the minds of a dozen [general managers].” That trio? Aaron Rodgers, whose future with the Green… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 5, 2022 Apple will need to enter uncharted territory to reach $4 trillion Apple (AAPL) on Monday made history by becoming the first publicly traded company with a market cap of $3 trillion. It’s now seesawing back and forth between the mark for the thrill of it. It’s a… Source link

Operator Tele2 Kazakhstan said customers can now pay on their operator bills for a subscription to the Yandex.Plus entertainment service from Russian internet search engine Yandex. The option is available for prepaid subscribers, for KZT 849 per month. Source link

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