California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
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Wary of Data Brokers? California Site Offers One-Stop Opt Out for 500+ Services
The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) will force registered data brokers to delete your personal data upon request. It's currently fa...
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California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers
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Comparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-apple-app-store-sam-altman-7a9b08ca?st=FQsGDn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Comparing ChatGPT
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Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
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Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
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On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
By Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism. View the full context on Techmeme.
Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (The Economic Times)
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Knight Fintech secures $23.6 million from Accel, IIFL, & others - The Economic Times
Knight Fintech has raised $23.6 million in a funding round led by early-stage venture firm Accel, with participation from IIFL and Rocket Capital. ...
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Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure that connects banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel
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xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/musks-xai-launches-grok-business-and-enterprise-with-compelling-vault-amid
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xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations
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India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over 'obscene' AI content | TechCrunch
India's IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.
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India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections
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Filing: OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman donated $25M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H2 2025; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M (Bill Allison/Bloomberg)
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Schwarzman, OpenAI’s Brockman Boost $102 Million Trump War Chest
President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations from a...
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Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump
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Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% "taxi tax" on total fares (Simon Goodley/The Guardian)
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Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’
Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement
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Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent, rather than a supplier, of taxi services outside London, to avoid the UK
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Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2 | TechCrunch
Pebble launches a $199 smartwatch with rounded screen that can last up to 2 weeks on one charge.
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Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199
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An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia to Sun Microsystems, and more (The Circuit on YouTube)
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An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, an AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia and Sun Microsystems, and more
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