In Brief: Meta to provide greater transparency about how users are targeted based on political or cultural affiliations
The move comes after academics and researchers expressed concern over risks of discriminatory targeting.
The move comes after academics and researchers expressed concern over risks of discriminatory targeting.
Four privacy commissioners from around the country are expected to rule soon on findings. The company has 4.3 million active users per month on its app, second only to Amazon in Canada.
Every self-respecting SaaS application wants an app marketplace of its own. Payment platform Stripe just reached that milestone, launching a marketplace with integrations including Hubspot, Mailchimp, Intercom, Dropbox, and Docusign. Users can access data from those tools within their Stripe dashboard and update the tools’ own files with data from Stripe.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.