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Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to leave board amid AI boom (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/18/2024 - 06:46Apple Changes Its App Store Policy. Critics Call the Moves ‘Outrageous.’
Apple's new App Store payment policies are stirring outrage among software developers who say the iPhone maker is skirting the intention of a court ruling. Apple will require developers to pay it a 27% commission if they use an alternative payment method, much like the company did in the Netherlands and South Korea in response to legal rulings over related issues in those countries. With this change, Apple is effectively saying “we refuse to back down,” said Fiona Scott Morton, a former antitrust official in the Obama administration.
George Will: How the Supreme Court could end the ‘Chevron deference’ foolishness (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 06:33AI’s future could hinge on one thorny legal question (Hint: It's about copyrights) (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 06:26States looking to 2024 to pass revised kids’ online safety bills (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/02/2024 - 11:59Generation GPT: What Gen Z really thinks about ‘world-changing’ AI (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 06:21102 million people eligible for Google’s lawsuit settlement
Tens of millions of U.S. consumers will get a payout as Google shells out $700 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by state prosecutors over the high fees it charges app developers. Google will pay $630 million into a fund that will be divided among an estimated 102 million eligible consumers across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the settlement terms for Utah et al v. Google.