Ben Brody
Technology Reporter at Punchbowl
Technology reporter @PunchbowlNews. Formerly @mlexclusive, @Protocol (RIP), @business and more. Not the war photographer.
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2 months ago |
stltoday.com | Ben Brody |Todd Shields
WASHINGTON • Facebook hasn’t been “fully forthcoming” as Congress investigated Russia’s attempted meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday. Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he questioned “the use of this really sketchy firm Cambridge Analytica,” but Facebook “blew that off” as they did other concerns over Russia’s actions.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
punchbowl.news | Ben Brody
News: A group of tech giants, industry groups and think tanks are pushing Congress to make a key Commerce Department AI initiative permanent before the end of the year. Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, IBM and other tech companies implored congressional leaders to formalize the AI Safety Institute in a letter obtained exclusively by Punchbowl News.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
punchbowl.news | Jake Sherman |Ben Brody
Sign up to receive our free weekday morning edition, and you'll never miss a scoop. Did you mean ? Premium October 17, 2024 CANTON, Ohio – Count House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) among the many skeptics of the Kids Online Safety Act. “We all want to protect kids, but I’ve got concerns,” Jordan said during a wide-ranging interview about the election and his legislative priorities should Republicans keep the House majority.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
punchbowl.news | Ben Brody
Add one of Lina Khan’s fellow agency Democrats to the list of progressives calling for the Federal Trade Commission chair to keep her job. The nod from Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter comes as some surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign signal they’d like to see Khan exit. But Slaughter’s praise also comes as some in tech whisper they’d prefer Slaughter take over the agency if Harris wins.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
punchbowl.news | Ben Brody
Sign up to receive our free weekday morning edition, and you'll never miss a scoop. Did you mean ? Premium October 15, 2024 News: Breaking up tech giant Alphabet by selling off Chrome and Android would make it easier for the government to enforce whatever remedies a federal judge imposes to deal with the firm’s antitrust violations.
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At a party last night, I said, “I know this is me being a hammer who sees nails everywhere, but I bet the new pope’s views on AI will turn out to be a big reason why he was chosen.”
Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. https://t.co/bI4F1EBIS8
I can (sorta) accept that seat-choice on a flight is now something to pay extra for, but don't make me choose a seat and then refuse to honor it. The airlines are standing there with frosting on their faces going "i wonder where that expensive cake went!"
RT @PunchbowlNews: TECH: Sen. Tom Cotton is pushing a bill to track where advanced U.S. chips end up — part of a broader GOP effort to keep…
