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Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly” — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday she will meet with the social media company's Oversight Board sometime in the coming weeks.| New York Times: |
Internal messages, documents, and a Zuckerberg Q&A show Facebook's attempts to calm staff, including sending out talking points and holding briefing sessions — Employees are divided over Frances Haugen, a former product manager who testified that the company was putting profit before safety.| Bruce Haring / Deadline: |
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In an email to employees, Andy Jassy says Amazon will leave remote work decisions to team leaders, instead of having everyone return by January — [Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.] — Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office en masse … | Katrina Manson / Financial Times: |
Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned, says China is headed for global dominance due to advances in AI, ML, and cyber capabilities — Nicolas Chaillan speaks of ‘good reason to be angry’ as Beijing heads for ‘global dominance’ through technological innovation
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Magic Leap raises another $500M and says its second-gen AR headset will arrive in 2022 with a slimmer form factor and twice the field of view — Augmented reality startup Magic Leap has raised a new $500 million round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, CEO Peggy Johnson told CNBC on Monday.
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Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest and most capable AI language model yet, containing 530B parameters — Microsoft and Nvidia today announced that they trained what they claim is the largest and most capable AI-powered language model to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP).
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Facebook adds an Audio hub to its app in the US, featuring podcasts, Live Audio Rooms, and short-form audio, and rolls out Live Audio Rooms globally — Facebook is expanding its investment in audio initiatives with the launch of a new “Audio” destination in its mobile app in the U.S. …
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Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them, after testing the option for over a month — All Twitter users can now remove a follower without having to block them. The company started testing this option last month, and starting today, everyone will have access to it.| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of leaked data from 4.9M Twitch accounts: the top 1% of streamers made over half of the money paid out in 2021, 3/4 made under $120, and more — The top 1% of paid streamers so far this year got over half of all revenue … Twitch streamer earnings this year
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Source: HTC's Vive Flow VR headset, to be released on Thursday, features six degrees of freedom tracking and is mostly for content consumption and casual gaming — HTC is set to unveil a new consumer headset at an online event Thursday: For weeks, the company has been teasing an unveiling using a …
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Sources: Tiger Global and Coatue are co-leading a $400M round for cryptocurrency payments startup MoonPay at a $3.4B valuation in its first VC funding — Crypto payments startup MoonPay is raising its first round of venture capital at a $3.4 billion valuation including the investment, according to two people familiar with the matter.| Renée DiResta / The Atlantic: |
How influencer-organized campaigns are succeeding at “ampliganda”, shaping public perception via messaging that is amplified by social networks' algorithms — One Sunday morning in July of last year, a message from an anonymous account appeared on “Bernie or Vest,” a Discord chat server for fans of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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