Weekly DaaS Roundup for May 9, 2024

Top Story of the Week

The rise and fall of robots.txt by David Pierce (The Verge)
For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers.

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News

Ongoing List of Generative AI Content Licensing Deals by Alex Izydorczyk, CEO of Cybersyn

Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI by Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)

Overview of World of DaaS Summit by Godard Abel, CEO of G2

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models by Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT by Dallin Grimm (Tom’s Hardware)

Dotdash Meredith Looks To AI Partnerships To Protect Its Search Traffic by Anthony Vargas (AdExchanger)

Google Won’t Pull Cookies In 2024 by Alyssa Boyle (AdExchanger)

Ibotta Crosses The IPO Finish Line – Now The Real Work Begins by James Hercher (AdExchanger)

Big Tech Ditched Trust and Safety. Now Startups Are Selling It Back As a Service by Vittoria Elliott (Wired)

FCC Fines Wireless Carriers About $200 Million for Sharing Customer Data by Ben Glickman ($WSJ)

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M&A and Funding

Sayari Closes $235 Million Strategic Investment from TPG

Vorlon raises $15.7M to tackle third-party API risks 

Podcast Recommendation

Groq CEO Jonathan Ross - Next Gen AI Hardware on World of DaaS podcast
Jonathan Ross is the founder and CEO of Groq, a company that develops high performance microchips purpose built for AI and machine learning. Prior to founding Groq, Jonathan invented Google’s AI processor, the TPU.

the World of DaaS channel passed 1.3 million (!!) views (and 14,000 subscribers) on YouTube: who knew there were so many data nerds?

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