Plus: Scale AI's new legal woes
Thursday, January 9, 2025 | | | Welcome to TC PM! Today we learn how consumers feel about the proposed content moderation changes at Meta; we catch up with the CEO of Scout Motors; and we learn more details about the PowerSchool hack. Onward. | | | Image Credits: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images | 📈 Well, well, well: Google searches for how to cancel accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads have skyrocketed since Meta announced earlier this week that it would end its third-party fact-checking system. Color me unsurprised. Read more 🤑 Another day, another settlement: Former Tesla directors, including Larry Ellison, Kimbal Musk, and James Murdoch, have to return nearly $1 billion to the company for "overpaying" themselves. Oops. Read more 🙈 Yeah, that's not good: Yesterday we reported that edtech software giant PowerSchool had been hacked; now we know more. The company said hackers accessed customer information, including Social Security numbers and medical information. Read more | | | Image Credits: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images | | | 🧑⚖️ Another lawsuit: Scale AI, a data-labeling startup, was hit with an employee wage lawsuit earlier this week that alleges the company misclassified the defendant as a contractor and paid them under minimum wage. It's the second employee wage lawsuit against the company in the last month. Read more 🦙 Zuck says "OK": Meta's Mark Zuckerberg allegedly gave the team behind Meta's Llama AI models the green light to train the models off of pirated e-books and articles, according to newly unredacted documents in a copyright lawsuit. Read more 🚘 Scout's honor: TechCrunch caught up with Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh at CES this week. Keogh shared why he thinks modern cars are "dystopian" and "disconnected" and how they plan to land customers beyond their target audience, among other things. Read more 🤝 One hub for all: Innovaccer is a startup looking to break down the data silos in healthcare to unify patient data into one hub. The company works with six of the top 10 U.S. healthcare systems and just raised $275 million. Read more 🛑 Beware: Software giant Ivanti is warning its customers about a zero-day vulnerability in its enterprise VPN appliance. This is just the latest security hit for Invanti, which announced it would overhaul its security processes last year after hackers targeted vulnerabilities in several applications. Read more | | | 👾 Let's go, Lego! Nintendo made an announcement with Lego today that was unfortunately not related to the release of Lego Indiana Jones on the Switch. But the two companies did announce that they plan to release a Lego set to build a classic Game Boy console. Fun! Read more 🧑⚖️ Musk's meddling: A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the attorneys general of California and Delaware to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in the company to allow people to bid on ownership. Good luck with that. Read more | | | Featured jobs from CrunchBoard | | | Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. | | | Update your preferences here at any time | | Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA | | | | |
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