Sarvesh Mathi

Penalties for non-compliance can be up to 10% of global turnover. For more: medianama.com/2024/03/223-su…

Thresholds for being designated as SSDE:

Ex-ante rules for digital platforms in India, like the EU DMA, have been in discussion for a while. On March 12, the government released the draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024, for public feedback. Here's a detailed summary of the Bill: medianama.com/2024/03/223-su…

Apart from Play service fees, startups have also told us that they pay Google a significant part of their revenue for advertising services. But this is hard to estimate as it is discretionary spending and varies company to company.

An illustration of the Google Play billing policy in India, which is at the heart of the longstanding issue between Google and app developers.

Can 10/10 vouch that she’ll be great for any company

So Moneycontrol reports that AI platforms will have to seek government permission before launching any AI product in India. Seems that the @GoI_MeitY has sent an advisory to AI platforms. Meity should clarify the legal basis for this advisory, because the IT Rules and the 1/

Can @IndusAppstore really take on Google Play in India? Maybe. Here are the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. @medianama medianama.com/2024/02/223-ph…

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

Vision Pro isn't just great, it's the single greatest piece of tech ive ever used

Deep Fakes are in the news again, and this time it's the unfortunate case of Taylor Swift's deep fake. X/Twitter had imposed an ineffective search block, and it is believed that Microsoft tools were used to create these deep fakes. Some thoughts on this: 1. There need to be 1/n

OpenAI has quietly changed its terms to allow it to work with Military and for Warfare theintercept.com/2024/01/12/ope… This is a worrying development, esp since OpenAI has scraped a large amount of publicly available data from across the world. While it says that it's tech should 1/n

Former philosophy professor Roop Rekha Verma, over 76 years of age, seen in this clip distributing pamphlets to promote communal harmony was one of the petitioners in the Bilkis Case. The idea of India survives because she still has daughters like her!

@gifsagar @pooniawalla @nsitharaman @Naba_Kr_Sarania RBI refused to share any whitelist to our RTI request. The appeal was also denied. medianama.com/2023/10/223-wh… Indian Express later reported that there’s no list at all. indianexpress.com/article/busine…

@pooniawalla @nsitharaman @Naba_Kr_Sarania @sarveshmathi any insights ?

FM @nsitharaman in reply to a question asked by MP @Naba_Kr_Sarania in Lok Sabha said that "RBI has shared a “whitelist” of legal loan apps to the GOI. This whitelist was shared by MeitY with Google." But there is no such whitelist. Did she lie in Lok Sabha, in writing? 🤨

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Google plans to appeal the decision, so more twists and turns are possible. But for now, this is the biggest setback to Google in its home market. More detailed story coming up on MediaNama. (5/5)

Epic CEO is rightfully elated. The case goes back all the way to August 2020 when Google took down Fortnite from Play for using its own billing system, prompting Epic to file this lawsuit. (4/5) twitter.com/timsweeneyepic…

Epic has won its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Google in the US with the jury finding both Play and Play Billing to be illegal monopolies 🧵(1/5)