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In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
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Threads: @carnage4life. X: @safety, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @thierrybreton, @globalaffairs, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @isabelle_szcz, @marinamedvin, @pinboard, @pinboard, @prestonjbyrne, @erinkwoo, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint, @guyverhofstadt, @jason_kint, and @zsk
Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU launched a probe into X over hosting misinformation in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israel; X could be fined up to 5% of its daily global turnover — Investigation is the first under the bloc's Digital Services Act and comes after letter to Musk raising concerns
More: European Commission, The Hill, Washington Post, Bloomberg, BBC, NPR, USA Today, Reuters, Variety, MobileSyrup, Fortune, Silicon UK, Tech Xplore, Politico, Daily Mail, Engadget, Social Media Today, Yahoo Finance, WION, Washington Examiner, TechCrunch, and Deadline. Bluesky: @jimbochill.bsky.social
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search Generative Experience adds the ability to generate images using prompts and to write drafts by customizing their tone and length — Google's AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, Android Authority, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Central, KnowTechie, SlashGear, Neowin, MakeUseOf, How-To Geek, iPhone in Canada Blog, Trusted Reviews, Android Headlines, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, Mashable, and PetaPixel. X: @google
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Threads rolls out voice posts and a free edit button; users can edit a post within five minutes of sending it, and Threads doesn't show an edit history — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now rolling out one of its most-requested features - an edit button.
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Threads: @zuck, @crumbler, @tomwarrenuk, @carnage4life, @mattnavarra, @alexheath, @hawaii, and @drey_hommies
Mastodon: @TruthSandwich@qoto.org and @tchambers@indieweb.social
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The CFTC charges Voyager Digital co-founder Stephen Ehrlich with fraud, saying he and Voyager lied to clients and hid the crypto lender's true financial health — - Stephen Ehrlich and the firm the co-founded, Voyager Digital, lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health, according to the CFTC.| New York Times: |
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for ~$975M, split as ~$880M in cash and the rest in stock, set to close in Q1 2024; Loom has 25M+ users — Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: the unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 moved the money in 2022 and via Russia-linked money launderers in October 2023 — Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
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X: @joetidy and @a_greenberg
LinkedIn: Matthew Price and Jackson Hull
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is generating revenue at a $1.3B/year pace, implying the company now generates $100M+/month, up 30% in three months — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year, CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — - Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Google says it will defend users of generative AI services in Workspace and Cloud from copyright claims; Microsoft, Adobe, and others made similar pledges — Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms … | Noema: |
Today's LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, and Claude have many flaws but decades from now they will be recognized as the first true AGI examples, like the ENIAC — Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf. X: @shanelegg, @blaiseaguera, @stefanfschubert, @noemamag, @melmitchell1, and @garymarcus
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Beehaw
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
More: WordPress.com News, The Verge, and BGR
Threads: @chrispirillo. Mastodon: @dilmandila@mograph.social, @clintlalonde@mastodon …, @randomwizard@social …, @anildash@me.dm, @mergesort@macaw.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @seo_theory. Forums: Hacker News
| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Filing: Sam Altman is the largest investor in Humane, which plans to unveil its AI Pin in November, with a 14.93% equity; Humane's two co-founders own 13% each — Sam Altman is Humane's biggest shareholder — Secretive AI hardware startup Humane is getting ready to officially unveil … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Over 220 VC firms, including Bain, Bessemer, and GGV, sign a statement supporting Israel and call for the investor community to support Israel's tech ecosystem — The open letter published on Thursday is the latest effort by startup investors to provide support for the state of Israel and its tech community, with 221 firms signed on.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund with lower eligibility conditions, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Coinbase's spot trading volume fell 52% YoY to $76B in Q3 2023, likely the lowest quarterly volume since Coinbase's Nasdaq direct listing in April 2021 — - Transaction revenue accounts for about half of total revenue — Quarterly spot trading volume fell to $76 billion, CCData says| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Surface Laptop Go 3 review: light, compact, and a premium design, but a low-resolution screen, the keyboard isn't backlit, few ports, and too expensive at $800+ — The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
Forums: r/Surface
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: Caltech settles a patent lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom, after suing them in 2016 for allegedly infringing its Wi-Fi patents — The California Institute of Technology has reached an agreement to end a patent lawsuit against Apple (AAPL.O) and Broadcom (AVGO.O) over Wi-Fi chips … | Bloomberg: |
As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, his own deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from such a deal could be years away — - Wall Street waiting for Gelsinger to name major foundry client — Record-setting factory build-out hinges on lining up customersSponsor Posts
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