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Feb 7, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan |David Crowther
While Amazon’s Q4 earnings may have disappointed investors with some gloomy guidance for the current quarter, its plans for 2025 are grand indeed. In the past few weeks, all of Big Tech has been revealing the scale of its plans for spending on AI infrastructure, and it’s like everyone is trying to outdo each other with increasingly massive capex estimates.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
Amongst a flurry of final enforcement actions in the last days of Lina Khan’s FTC, the agency announced an enforcement action against General Motors and OnStar, and its roadside assistance subsidiary. The proposed order bans GM and OnStar from sharing precise geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for a period of five years.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
Autonomous-weapons systems startup Anduril announced plans to build a $1 billion “hyperscale” factory in Columbus, Ohio. Named “Arsenal-1,” the sprawling 5 million-square-foot, airport-adjacent factory complex will be optimized for “the mass production of autonomous systems and weapons,” according to the company’s press release. The company said the factory is expected to create 4,000 jobs.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Jon Keegan
1 hour agoMost LinkedIn sales strategies fail before they start. People push their services too hard, turning potential clients away. They send connection requests with instant pitches. They post about how amazing they are. They sign off and say it didn’t work, failing to see that they played the game …
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
In the last week of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan’s tenure, the agency sued John Deere for “unfair corporate tactics” that have made repairs to the company’s farm equipment difficult and expensive.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against auto-insurance company Allstate yesterday, alleging that the company and its subsidiary vehicle-data unit Arity “conspired to secretly collect and sell ‘trillions of miles’ of consumers ‘driving behavior’ data from mobile devices, in-car devices, and vehicles.” The complaint alleges that Allstate compiled the “world’s largest driving behavior database,” which it used to justify insurance-premium increases based on a driver’s history.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
OpenAI just published a 15-page manifesto titled “AI in America: Open AI’s Economic Blueprint.” But if you read between the lines, the blueprint boils down to a wish list of things that OpenAI wants from the US government: 🚦 Voluntary “rules of the road” instead of federal regulation ⚖️ Exclusion from the patchwork of state AI regulations 🪖 Classified national security briefings 🚔 Defense, national security and law enforcement contracts 🎟️ Exclusion from any AI regulations if the companies on...
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
Meta may be the biggest beneficiary of TikTok’s existential woes. After arguments at the Supreme Court today, which made the impending ban of TikTok appear to be more likely, Meta’s stock swung from down 2% to as much as 3% higher. Shares ended the day with a decent gain despite the swoon in the broader market.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
A hacking group recently revealed that it had breached the location-data company Gravy Analytics and exfiltrated sensitive location data on millions of users. A leaked sample of the data has revealed a list of thousands of apps which allegedly leaked this data. Some of the apps in the list included Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal, Disney Magic Kingdoms, FuboTV, and AccuWeather: Weather Radar.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
sherwood.news | Jon Keegan
It’s getting harder to avoid ads on streaming video. For cord-cutters, after years of living in ad-free bliss, the trend is heading toward ads— a lot of ads. The big streaming platforms are all boosting the price of their ad-free subscriptions, trying to get as many people over to an ad-supported tier, which has a greater potential revenue per user despite the lower monthly fees.
