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☆ College student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said he started doing it years ago because he was a fan. Now the billionaire is threatening to sue him.
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Grace Kay | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Jack Sweeney said he started tracking Elon Musk's jet because he was a fan of the Tesla CEO. Over two years later, the billionaire is threatening to sue him after suspending his Twitter accounts. The 20-year-old has made headlines and even gotten job offers as a result of his jet-tracking accounts. "I don't mean any harm and that's never the intended purpose of the accounts," Jack Sweeney told Insider on Thursday. On Wednesday, Twitter suspended Sweeney's account that track's Musk's private plane as well as his personal account, and over 30 other jet-tracking accounts.
☆ A solo Ticketmaster might attract financial fans
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Jennifer Saba | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The drums are beating louder for a breakup of Live Nation Entertainment (LYV.N). For Live Nation, it’s not entirely clear that the flywheel is spinning smoothly. Live Nation says it is so dominant because it’s so much better than the competition. Putting the complicated legal and regulatory questions aside, there’s probably a financial case for Ticketmaster to become a solo act. Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster in 2010.
☆ College student who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he's not concerned about possibly being sued by the billionaire: 'There isn't much ground for him to stand on'
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Grace Kay | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Jack Sweeney said he's "not really concerned" about Elon Musk's legal threat. A legal expert told Insider that Musk doesn't have much of a case, but a legal battle may be costly. Sweeney told Insider on Thursday. Sweeney told Insider that he's not sure what the video has to do with him. The 20-year-old said he was home from college when he learned of Musk's legal threat.
☆ Your next Taco Bell orders could be taken with artificial intelligence as fast food chains from McDonald's to Chipotle test automation to combat the brutal labor shortage still plaguing the industry
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Panera Bread unveiled new drive-thru tech. Taco Bell said it is testing AI-powered bots at the drive-thru. Taco Bell, Chipotle, and Domino's are using AI-powered voice bots to take orders, while fast-casual chains like Sweetgreen are adding drive-thru lanes designated for faster pickup of digital orders. During an investor conference held Tuesday in New York, Taco Bell's parent company, Yum Brands, said it is testing conversational AI internally and at a Taco Bell drive thru. Here's a look at the 13 chains and restaurant companies adding automated tech to augment labor and speed up service for digital customers.
☆ Twitter took down the account that tracks Elon Musk's jet, but the ones tracking Mark Zuckerberg and other celebrities are still up and running
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Twitter suspended an account that tracks Elon Musk's jet, but left dozens of accounts tracking other celebrities. On Wednesday, Sweeney's @elonjet account on Twitter had a notice on it saying it had been suspended because "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules." But, as of Wednesday afternoon, @ZuccJet and @CelebJets, as well as his other jet-tracking accounts were still posting travel updates. Sweeney, Musk, and a Twitter spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. When Musk first offered to buy Twitter, Sweeney said he thought it was likely that Musk would try to shut down the account.
☆ Google execs say the company isn't launching a ChatGPT competitor because it has greater 'reputational risk' than startups like OpenAI
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Employees asked execs if failing to launch a chatbot like OpenAI's ChatGPT is a "missed opportunity," CNBC reported. Alphabet's CEO and Google's head of AI said the company has a greater "reputational risk" than startups like OpenAI. ChatGPT reached over one million users within five days of its launch, and is backed by Google's rival, Microsoft. In addition to LaMDA, Google's BERT and MUM AI language models, which are used to improve its search engine, are competitive with ChatGPT. A former Google executive told Bloomberg that ChatGPT could "disrupt" Google's ad business by stopping users from clicking links that have ads.
☆ Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he’s axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs.
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( David Ingram | Lora Kolodny | Https | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +10 min
Meanwhile, Twitter’s resources to fight child sexual exploitation content online (and what is sometimes called child pornography or child sexual abuse materials) are thin, following layoffs, mass-firings and resignations from the company. Child sexual exploitation content has remained a problem for Twitter, though most major social media platforms continue to deal with it in some form or another. Moderation of this content usually relies on a combination of automated detection systems and specialized internal teams and external contractors to identify child abuse content and remove it. “So, I mean, that is disheartening.”It’s unclear how many Twitter employees remain to work on child safety issues. A search on LinkedIn for current Twitter employees who say they work on child safety turned up only a few accounts.
☆ Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he’s axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( David Ingram | Lora Kolodny | Cnbc | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +10 min
Less than a month after taking control of Twitter , Elon Musk said addressing child sexual exploitation content on the social media platform was "Priority #1." "It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!" Meanwhile, Twitter's resources to fight child sexual exploitation content online (and what is sometimes called child pornography or child sexual abuse materials) are thin, following layoffs, mass-firings and resignations from the company. Twitter's imperfect efforts fighting child sexual exploitation content were well documented. Stroppa said he felt Twitter's previous efforts were lacking and that it now moves quickly to find and suspend accounts that post child sexual exploitation content.
☆ Karma for Taylor Swift fans as Ticketmaster offers second chance for 'Eras Tour' tickets
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Kaetlyn Liddy | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
"We apologize for the difficulties you may have experienced, and have been asked by Taylor's team to create this additional opportunity for you to purchase tickets." The news comes one month after the public sale of Swift's "Eras Tour" was canceled due to "extraordinarily high demand." Ticketmaster claimed that 3.5 million fans pre-registered for Swift's Verified Fan program, the largest registration in its history. After they register as a "verified fan," Ticketmaster provides them with a code and a link to the purchase site. When tickets go on sale, the link leads fans to a "Smart Queue" that "keeps ticket bots out."
☆ LinkedIn has a fake account problem it's trying to fix. Real users are part of the solution
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Bob Violino | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
While 95.3% of those fake accounts were stopped at registration by automated defenses, according to the company, there was a nearly 28% increase in fake accounts caught compared to the previous six-month period. For these reasons it can serve the purposes of bad actors to have fake LinkedIn profiles, Khan said. "Bad actors are trying to craft fake identities and make them look real by leaving a plausible-looking digital footprint across different platforms," Khan said. The challenge for LinkedIn users is that profiles on social media platforms are easy to create and are typically not verified in any way. The model helps increase the effectiveness of LinkedIn's automated anti-abuse defenses to help detect and remove fake accounts before they can reach members.
☆ Taylor Swift signs on to direct a movie for Disney as she campaigns for short film Oscar
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Year award onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Taylor Swift has only just begun an Oscar campaign for her short film "All Too Well," and she's already struck a deal with Disney to make her feature directorial debut. The short film is based on Swift's song "All Too Well" and follows a manipulative boyfriend played by Dylan O'Brien and a young woman played by Sadie Sink as they fall in love and ultimately have a devastating breakup. The news of Swift's feature film directorial debut comes just a few months after the singer made history as the only solo artist to win two best direction awards at MTV's Video Music Awards. Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation , was supposed to open up sales for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans last month ahead of general public ticket sales.
☆ Democratic lawmakers ask Musk for info on possible Chinese manipulation of Twitter
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Lora Kolodny Lauren Feiner | Lora Kolodny | Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. Taibbi has an exclusive podcast deal with Musk's friend and Twitter investor David Sacks via his podcasting platform, Callin. Taibbi and Weiss both write newsletters on Substack, which is partly funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a co-investor in Twitter with Musk. Musk has even gone so far as to say that Twitter, which he now owns and leads, interfered with U.S. elections. During a Twitter Spaces discussion, Musk suggested more files would be released regarding how Twitter handled the 2020 presidential election, the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and the Covid-19 pandemic.
☆ Big firms like Ticketmaster can become 'too big to care,' -U.S. FTC chair
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Diane Bartz | Thomson Reuters | Focused On U.S. Antitrust As Well As Corporate Regulation | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, on Tuesday said giant companies like Ticketmaster (LYV.N), which faces a tsunami of criticism for problems in selling tickets to a 2023 Taylor Swift tour, can become "too big to care." "There can be concerns that when firms become (large) they can become too big to care," she added, saying giant firms may feel no need to invest in innovation because they do not face tough competition. Ticketmaster has drawn fresh heat from U.S. lawmakers over how it handled ticket sales for Swift's first tour in five years. Last month, U.S. lawmakers pressed the FTC to enforce a 2016 law against ticket scalpers using bots after Ticketmaster blamed the software for troubles selling tickets to Swift's tour. Ticketmaster has blamed problems with presale ticketing for the tour on unprecedented demand and an effort to keep out bots run by ticket scalpers.
☆ Big firms like Ticketmaster can become 'too big to care,' FTC chair says
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, on Tuesday said giant companies like Ticketmaster (LYV.N), which faces a tsunami of criticism for problems in selling tickets to a 2023 Taylor Swift tour, can become "too big to care." Speaking at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit, Khan said that it was the Justice Department that approved the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation in 2010 and referenced a report that the department had a probe under way. "There can be concerns that when firms become (large) they can become too big to care," she added, saying that giant firms may feel like they don't need to invest in innovation because they're not facing tough competition. "There's been public reporting that the Justice Department continues to look at this and I'm sure it's top of mind for them, given all the incoming that they're getting," she added. Neither Ticketmaster nor the Justice Department immediately responded to requests for comment.
☆ Leased Robots Roll in to Help Logistics Firms Handle Holiday Crush
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +5 min
Sally Miller, chief information officer of DHL’s North American supply-chain business, a unit of Deutsche Post AG , said she is planning to deploy “a good number” of temporary robots at several of the company’s retail-focused sites. The Locus Robotics robots—which the manufacturer calls “surge bots”—will be used for picking up orders and fulfillment, Ms. Miller said. Photo: Locus RoboticsKnown as robots-as-a-service, leased robots are employed widely in manufacturing, but are relatively new to the logistics industry, analysts said. The extra robots, provided by Berkeley, Calif.-based Ambi Robotics Inc., helped the company handle a surge of packages, it said. Mr. Faulk, of Locus Robotics, said the company hopes many logistics firms will hold on to their temporary robots well after seasonal highs, as a way to eke out year-round efficiencies.
☆ See how McDonald's, Subway, Chipotle and other chains are using robots and AI to make faster orders with fewer workers
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
They join a slew of chains adding tech to help with labor shortages and digital orders. Here are 13 chains adding voice bots, robotic fry cooks, and mobile-order express lanes. Chipotle, Domino's, and Checkers & Rally's are using AI-powered voice bots to take orders, while fast-casual chains like Sweetgreen are adding drive-thru lanes designated for faster pickup of digital orders. On Friday, new Labor Department data shows that the restaurant industry is still short 400,000 workers compared to pre-pandemic levels. Here's a look at the 13 chains and restaurant companies adding tech to augment labor and speed up service for digital customers.
☆ Lawmakers tell Live Nation CEO they want answers on the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Taylor Swift accepts an award onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022 held at PSD Bank Dome on November 13, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany. Lawmakers have some questions for Live Nation's CEO after Ticketmaster bungled the recent sale of Taylor Swift tour tickets. Ticketmaster was supposed to open up sales for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans last month ahead of general public ticket sales. Ultimately, 2 million tickets were sold during the presale and the general public sale was canceled, company representatives said. Eras tour tickets were priced from $49 to $450, with VIP packages starting at $199 and reaching $899.
☆ Congress wants to grill Live Nation’s CEO over the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
It also wants answers about how Ticketmaster plans to improve in the future. Swift’s Eras tour kicks off March 17 and will have 52 concerts in multiple stadiums across the United States over five months. In its letter to Rapino, the committee also said it wants information about the fees Ticketmaster charges customers. Rapino and Live Nation have caught the ire of Congress before. Senator Amy Klobuchar criticized Ticketmaster in an open letter Rapino in the days following the ticket snafu, saying she has “serious concerns” about the company’s operations.
☆ How bots are being deployed inside banks after a pandemic boom in fraud
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Bank card fraud exploded during the pandemic. Then came the bot hiring boom
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
But it was the pandemic as much as the deal itself which led to one important change in how the company looked at the combination of human workforce and technology. The use of digital banking boomed during the pandemic lockdowns and that led to an exponential growth in fraud. Fraud was costing the bank a significant amount of money, but previous to the pandemic, employing a human workforce for every charge was not an efficient or economic way to solve the problem. The costs of the fraud were being refunded to consumers, but the bank was not claiming the costs back from payment processors. But once the two banks combined, "it became really valuable," Hawkins said, just as the pandemic was leading to more fraud at low transaction values.
☆ Not having a college degree matters most early in your career. But there are workarounds for young workers.
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Research suggests a college degree isn't as much of a requirement as it once was for many jobs. But there's one thing George lacks: a college degree. An analysis by the Burning Glass Institute, a nonprofit research group, found that the share of jobs requiring a college degree has fallen in recent years. Beat the bots through keywords — and find a friendly recruiterGeorge, who works at Logan Capital Management in Pennsylvania, could recall only one time when not having a college degree cost her a job. "If you're up against someone with a liberal arts degree, you're more likely to progress because you know how to sell," he said.
☆ More than two dozen Taylor Swift fans sue Ticketmaster
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
More than two dozen Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. for “unlawful conduct” in the pop star’s chaotic tour sale, claiming the ticketing giant violated antitrust laws, among others. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Friday, alleges Ticketmaster and its parent company were anti-competitive, imposing higher prices on fans in the presale, sale and resale market. The lawsuit also claimed that since Ticketmaster has agreements with the large stadiums in the tour, Swift “has no choice” but to work with Ticketmaster due to the size of her fan base. It also alleges that Ticketmaster profits off the resale of tickets in the secondary market by adding a service fee to its fan-to-fan exchange. Pre-sale tickets for “The Eras Tour” frustrated Swift fans across the country in a debacle that stayed in the headlines for weeks.
☆ Elon Musk says Twitter's team was 'too intense' with suspending false accounts and is 'moving to chill mode'
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Musk said Twitter's team had been "too intense" with suspending fake accounts. Musk said the team in charge of suspensions was "moving to chill mode." After one Twitter user complained about Twitter suspending a number of genuine accounts that posted "memes and positivity," Musk responded: "Team was a bit too intense with spam/bot suspensions. Twitter's new trust and safety head Ella Irwin said that Musk's top priority was platform safety in an interview with Reuters. Several left-wing activists had their accounts suspended unfairly over the past few weeks because Twitter's trust and safety team has been "decimated," one activist impacted told Insider.
☆ Taylor Swift fans sue Ticketmaster following fumbled presale
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Francesca Gariano | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
The plaintiffs are seeking a penalty of $2,500 against Ticketmaster for every violation of Business and Professions Code, section 17200. The lawsuit specifically cited the “ticket sale disaster” that occurred on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 during the Verified Fan presale, which caused the site to crash, and the Capital One presale. “We believe that both Taylor Swift and her fans were hurt by Ticketmaster,” said Jennifer Kinder, an attorney for the plaintiffs, in a statement. “Even when a high demand on sale goes flawlessly from a tech perspective, many fans are left empty handed,” Ticketmaster said. “It goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans,” Swift wrote.
☆ I oversaw hiring at Microsoft. Here's the one interview question that makes or breaks job candidates — and what I looked for in an answer.
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Chris Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
He always asks job candidates to tell him something they've learned recently. A person who will promptly learn what they need to and help others by sharing what they've learned. A great candidate will have a ready answerMaybe they've learned how to format pivot tables in Excel. They will make it easy to share what they've learned. It doesn't happen often; most people have something they've learned, something they can share.
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