The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increases its reliance on artificial intelligence.
Category: Snap Inc
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Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
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Snapchat Investigated in Europe Over Child Safety Policies
The New York Times – Business:Regulators in Brussels accused the social media platform of maintaining a weak age-verification system, and steering younger users toward inappropriate experiences.
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Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage
The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.
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Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage
The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.
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How Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools
Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.
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How Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools
Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.
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Why Luigi Mangione’s Reddit and Instagram Were Taken Down, but Not His Goodreads
Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. When do companies scrub a digital trail?
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Meta, TikTok and More Sites Engaged in ‘Vast Surveillance,’ a New FTC Study Finds
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
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These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.
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Florida Passes Sweeping Bill to Keep Young People Off Social Media
The measure would bar networks like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram from giving accounts to children under 16.
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Snap Shares Plummet After Q4 Earnings Report
The Snapchat parent company’s revenue for the fourth quarter was up from a year ago, but it had missed Wall Street’s expectations.