Copyrighting AI Art, the Y2K of Browser Updates, and Other News
Stephen Thaler, The Creativity Machine
AI-US Officials: You can’t copyright AI-created art.
We can tokenize cartoons and sell them, but we can’t patent art made by the Creativity Machine? Officials claim copyright protections only apply to “the fruits of intellectual labor” and must be created by a human being… a human being created the “Creativity Machine”, which I can’t imagine was created in a day and DEFINITELY required some serious intellectual labor from Stephen Thaler.
Tech- Salesforce NFT Plans Cause Internal Backlash
Salesforce Employees aren’t happy about reported plans to launch an NFT cloud which would allow users to create and release their own token-based content. Thomson Reuters Foundation News reports that hundreds of employees signed a letter of protest due to economic and environmental concerns.
Privacy- Google Announces Android Privacy Sandbox Plans
The multi-year roadmap will eliminate the need for an advertising ID, and will also eliminate the potential for cross-app identification and limited data sharing with third parties. Google is treading lightly due to its primary source of revenue being advertising, current antitrust lawsuits, and the reality that they can’t beat Apple at the privacy game. For advertisers- its clear Google is working hard to preserve what its built, but also trying to meet the demands for consumer privacy.
Tech- Chrome and Firefox are nearing their 100th versions, are you ready?
The three-digit update may cause issues with UA strings and result in “browser not supported”, 403 errors, parsing failure, or overall issues with site rendering. Chrome launches on March 29th and Firefox on May 3rd.
Health-FDA approves app-driven insulin pump
Tandem Diabetes Care Apps for iOS and Android were approved by the FDA and connect to their t:slim X2 insulin pump to make Diabetes management easier. For those who already have the pump, customers can access this feature via a software update which will be launched to a limited group in the spring and a larger rollout ini the summer.
Will this change payer coverage?
