There’s one more urgent reason OpenAI may be interested in social networking, though: as a source of fresh and free data. Unlike most of its biggest competitors, which have all been collecting ...

OpenAI is working on its own social network as a way to compete with Meta, Google, and xAI’s Grok, but also as a source of data.

Social Science One is an effort to get the Holy Grail of data sets into the hands of private researchers. That Holy Grail is Facebook data. Yep, that same unthinkably massive trove that brought us ...

With more than 500m tweets a day Twitter is a treasure trove of data and now it is opening that data up to research institutions to glean valuable insights via its new Data Grants service.

Truth Social, the social network started by former President Donald J. Trump, has struggled to attract large brands. Among the ads published on Truth Social were ones for bobbleheads depicting ...