Twitter rate limits could undermine CEO Linda Yaccarino: ad experts

Twitter rate limits could undermine CEO Linda Yaccarino: ad experts

Elon Musk’s move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by new CEO Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said. Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. Users posted screenshots in reply, showing …

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Jack Dorsey defends Elon Musk amid ‘rate limits’ fiasco

Jack Dorsey defends Elon Musk amid 'rate limits' fiasco

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey defended Elon Musk amid backlash over the decision by the social media site’s boss to introduce “rate limits” which cap the number of tweets users can see per day. “Running Twitter is hard,” Dorsey tweeted on Monday. “I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints …

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China resists Mark Zuckerberg bid to sell Quest headsets: report

China resists Mark Zuckerberg bid to sell Quest headsets: report

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to get his Quest headsets on shelves in China due to his past criticisms of the Communist-run government, according to a report. The Facebook co-founder and other Meta executives have contacted Tencent Holdings about bringing his virtual reality headset to a market of more than 1.4 billion people, according to The Wall Street Journal. …

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‘Picked a fight with America’

'Picked a fight with America'

Twitter CEO Elon Musk drew the ire of thousands of users after he announced a temporary limit on the number of posts that can be read in a day.  Musk said the social media company was implementing post-reading limits to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” On Saturday afternoon, verified accounts could read up to 6,000 posts per day, …

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Lawsuit says OpenAI violated US authors’ copyrights to train AI chatbot

Lawsuit says OpenAI violated US authors' copyrights to train AI chatbot

Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors’ copyrights. Matthew Butterick, an attorney for the authors, declined …

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Goldman Sachs may exit credit card deal with Apple: report

Goldman Sachs may exit credit card deal with Apple: report

Goldman Sachs is considering exiting its partnership with Apple, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The iPhone-maker and Goldman Sachs started rolling out a virtual credit card in 2019. The bank is in talks with American Express to take over its Apple credit card and other ventures with the tech giant, the report added. Goldman Sachs and the iPhone-maker started rolling out …

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Apple will permanently delete photos in July — how to keep yours safe

Apple will permanently delete photos in July — how to keep yours safe

A picture is worth a thousand words — as long as it doesn’t get deleted. Apple announced it will permanently do away with the My Photo Stream album next month. The feature automatically stores pictures taken in the last 30 days. Due to the impending shutdown, My Photo Stream stopped uploading snaps on June 26 — and everything in the …

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