Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Backs Elon Musk’s Controversial Tweet-Reading Rate Limits: Details

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Backs Elon Musk’s Controversial Tweet-Reading Rate Limits: Details

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday tweeted a defense of the temporary cap announced July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertising has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy criticism from users and marketing professionals….

Meta to Launch Threads App on July 6 as Twitter Restricts Access to Users

Meta to Launch Threads App on July 6 as Twitter Restricts Access to Users

Meta Platforms plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, days after Twitter executive chair Elon Musk announced a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site. Threads, Instagram’s text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to follow…

Elon Musk’s Twitter Puts Temporary Limit on Number of Tweets: Here’s What It Means

Elon Musk’s Twitter Puts Temporary Limit on Number of Tweets: Here’s What It Means

Elon Musk‘s Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network’s efforts to attract advertisers. The limit, imposed to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”, is…

Tech Giants Could Face Fines Worth Up to 5 Percent of Annual Turnover Under Proposed Australian Laws

Tech Giants Could Face Fines Worth Up to 5 Percent of Annual Turnover Under Proposed Australian Laws

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring “mandatory” standards to the little-regulated sector. Under the proposed legislation, the owners of platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and podcasting services would face…

Meta, OpenAI CEO Express Support for EU Regulation on AI

Meta, OpenAI CEO Express Support for EU Regulation on AI

Technology company executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman expressed support for government oversight of artificial intelligence after discussions with European Commission Thierry Breton. The commissioner said Friday that he and Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms, were “aligned” on the EU’s regulation of artificial intelligence, which is now in…

Amazon to Invest Additional $15 Billion in India, Says CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon to Invest Additional $15 Billion in India, Says CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon.com will invest an additional $15 billion (roughly Rs. 12,297 crore) in India, the company’s Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his meeting on Friday. The investment will take the e-commerce giant’s total India investment across all businesses to $26 billion (roughly Rs. 21,314 crore) by…

Meta Rolls Back Policy to Curb COVID-19 Misinformation on Facebook, Instagram

Meta Rolls Back Policy to Curb COVID-19 Misinformation on Facebook, Instagram

Meta Platforms said on Friday a policy that was put in place to curb the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram would no longer be in effect globally. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter came under immense pressure to tackle misinformation related to the…

General Motors Adopts Tesla’s Charging Plug, Giving GM EV Owners Access to Supercharger Network

General Motors Adopts Tesla’s Charging Plug, Giving GM EV Owners Access to Supercharger Network

General Motors will join Ford in adopting Tesla’s North American charging plug standard and give GM electric-vehicle buyers access to the Tesla Supercharger network under an agreement announced on Thursday. GM’s move, which follows a similar decision by Ford to embrace Tesla’s charging plug standard, means three of the top…

Crypto Scammers Hack OpenAI CTO’s Twitter Account, Promote Fake Airdrop: Details

Crypto Scammers Hack OpenAI CTO’s Twitter Account, Promote Fake Airdrop: Details

Crypto scammers are infamous on Twitter and are always on the lookout for unsuspecting victims and high-profile targets. In a latest development, crypto scammers have hacked the Twitter account of OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati. Soon after the hackers gained access to Maruti’s account, promotional tweets around a fake crypto airdrop…

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Alleges Elon Musk Cheated Shareholders Several Times During Twitter Buyout

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Alleges Elon Musk Cheated Shareholders Several Times During Twitter Buyout

A judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated Twitter shareholders several times last year in the course of buying the social media company for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,61,687 crore). In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said…