Instead of Doomscrolling

First half 2024

US Policies, Government Actions, and lawsuits

Feb 28, 2024 - Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck | WIRED

Apr 19, 2024 - Meta AI is restricting election-related responses in India | TechCrunch

Apr 29, 2024 - NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI | TechCrunch.

UK and EU Policies and Government Actions

Mar 13, 2024 - Deal on EU AI Act gets thumbs up from European Parliament | TechCrunch

Apr 3, 2024 - EU and US set to announce joint working on AI safety, standards & R&D | TechCrunch

Apr 9, 2024 - As AI accelerates, Europe's flagship privacy principles are under attack, warns EDPS | TechCrunch

Apr 18, 2024 - Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them | TechCrunch

Apr 24, 2024 - UK probes Amazon and Microsoft over AI partnerships with Mistral, Anthropic and Inflection | TechCrunch | CMA sounds antitrust alarm

Cybersecurity

Apr 5, 2024 - Meta's new AI deepfake playbook: More labels, fewer takedowns | TechCrunch

Intellectual Properties

Apr 2, 2024 - Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI | TechCrunch

Apr 13, 2024 - Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI | TechCrunch

Apr 26, 2024 - Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them | TechCrunch

Apr 28, 2024 - OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK's Financial Times, including content use | TechCrunch

Other Platform Changes

Apr 7, 2024 - Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts | TechCrunch

Apr 9, 2024 - Watch: Spotify rolls out an AI-powered playlist feature (techcrunch.com)

Apr 9, 2024 - eBay adds an AI-powered 'shop the look' feature to its iOS app | TechCrunch

Apr 9, 2024 - Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators | TechCrunch

Apr 11, 2024 - Meta will auto-blur nudity in Instagram DMs in latest teen safety step | TechCrunch

Apr 11, 2024 - Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa | TechCrunch

Apr 17, 2024 - Reddit CPO talks new features — better translations, moderation and dev tools | TechCrunch

Apr 17, 2024 - Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools | TechCrunch

Apr 30, 2024 - Meta’s Oversight board is getting smaller. - The Verge

Apr 30, 2024 - Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses | TechCrunch

Market News

Apr 15, 2024 - OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese | TechCrunch

Apr 29, 2024 - TechCrunch Minute: Elon Musk’s big plans for xAI include raising $6 billion | TechCrunch

Education

AI and Humanity

Downstream AI use

Mar 27, 2024 - Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors | TechCrunch

Apr 14, 2024 - How Neural Concept's aerodynamic AI is shaping Formula 1 | TechCrunch

Apr 16, 2024 - Generative AI is coming for healthcare, and not everyone's thrilled | TechCrunch

Apr 18, 2024 - Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks | TechCrunch

Apr 21, 2024 - How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier | TechCrunch

Opinions and stories

Apr 4, 2024 Big Tech companies form new consortium to allay fears of AI job takeovers | TechCrunch

Apr 4, 2024 - India, grappling with election misinfo, weighs up labels and its own AI safety coalition | TechCrunch

Interviews

Apr 16, 2024 - Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch

Methodology: I searched three websites The Verge and TechCrunch for tech news. I only include news that have research implication (as a reference or as an intervention). News selection is subjective. I skim the news. If the news falls on any categories (top down), it will stay there. All of the access dates are from May 2024 onwards.

Note: Progress

https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/page/10/

https://www.theverge.com/archives/tech/2024/4

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