TikTok is introducing a data portability API to help it comply with new European regulations designed to rein in Big Tech’s market dominance through various obligations and restrictions. […]
Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet
Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse blockchain’s potential to decentralize various aspects of human activities for […]
Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be tracked’ consent model
Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and […]
X goes to court in Elon Musk’s war against an anti-hate research org
Elon Musk’s crusade against the extremism research organization the Center for Countering Digital Hate will have its day in court on Thursday. Elon Musk and X sued the […]
Liveliness is a sports community app for finding new workout buddies
Finding people who share your active passion — to go hiking, biking, running, whatever — is a pretty enduring problem. Existing friends and family aren’t always going to […]
The Supreme Court could decide the fate of content moderation — or it could punt
The Supreme Court is considering the fate of two state laws that limit how social media companies can moderate the content on their platforms. In oral arguments on […]
Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filing, Reddit fails to fully address the complications […]
Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads
Threads may be about to get another big boost from parent company Meta…at least in terms of sources of new content. The company has been spotted testing a […]
OpenAI releases Sora, a credit score–based dating app launches and an anti-Tesla ad comes under fire
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, OpenAI stunned the blogosphere with the release of Sora, […]