🎩 U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology

Plus: Humanity is closer to self-destruction than ever before, After inking its OpenAI deal - Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit, and more…

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U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology. The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising, in the agency's first antitrust lawsuit against a tech giant under President Biden… (David McCabe & Nico Grant / The New York Times)

Nico Grant @nicoagrant

New: The Justice Department sued Google today, alleging the company has abused its monopoly power in the ad technology market. It's the company's fifth antitrust lawsuit since 2020. @dmccabe

nytimes.comU.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad TechnologyThe Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020.

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Humanity is closer to self-destruction than ever before. The Doomsday Clock has advanced to 90 seconds before midnight, indicating that humanity has moved closer to self-destruction than ever before. The symbolic clock has served as a metaphor for our proximity to catastrophe since 1947. This year… (Amanda Shendruk / Quartz)

Amanda Shendruk @AShendruk

Doomsday Clock moved forward again 😬 qz.com/humanity-is-cl… Please enjoy my visualization of the metaphorical timepiece's history on a ... clock plot? ... connected scatter-clock? ... 🤔📈

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After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts. Image Credits: Ingrid / Shutterstock under a CC BY 2.0 license. When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI's Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed… (Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts tcrn.ch/3kG0YVl by @ingridlunden

tcrn.chAfter inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text promptsCustomers of Shutterstock’s Creative Flow online design platform will now be able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2

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Microsoft Teams and Outlook down due to 'networking issue'. Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 services are currently down for thousands of users worldwide due to a networking issue. The software maker says it has “ identified a potential networking issue ” and is… (Tom Warren / The Verge)

Tom Warren @tomwarren

you might be noticing issues with Xbox games not syncing or Xbox apps not loading properly on PC / mobile too as part of this Microsoft outage theverge.com/2023/1/25/2357…

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Generative AI: how will the new era of machine learning affect you?. Systems like ChatGPT can produce content to order, threatening not just jobs but a surge of misinformation… (Richard Waters / Financial Times)

Financial Times @FinancialTimes

Systems like ChatGPT can produce content to order, threatening not just jobs but a surge of misinformation on.ft.com/3DASS75?

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