SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake (Reuters) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
How the three largest US gig economy companies, Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber, are aggressively expanding into Europe and Turkey through acquisitions (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief (Conor Hale/Fierce Biotech) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025 (David Heaney/UploadVR) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
Q&A with SAP CEO Christian Klein on data security, Databricks partnership, building a “social network for B2B”, positioning SAP as a neutral player, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) May 10, 2025 by appcompact
Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation (Eli Tan/New York Times) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Texas AG Ken Paxton says Google has agreed in principle to pay $1.375B to settle allegations of violating data privacy rights of the state's residents (Dan Mangan/CNBC) May 9, 2025 by appcompact