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X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account — Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known …
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Mastodon: @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …, @LeslieBurns@legal.social, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @lauren@mastodon …, @John@socks.masto.host, @I_am_stefan@dembowski.social, @Andy_European@mastodon.online, @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org, @ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social, and @davidakin@mstdn.ca
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| Sara Dorn / Forbes: |
In a 2+ hour long talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal” — Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which argues for open sourcing AI tools, says AI's benefits far outweigh its harms, and opposes AI regulation — The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ChatGPT outperforms Gemini-powered Bard overall across factual retrieval, summarization, creative writing, and coding tests, but not as clearly as in April 2023 — We run the models through seven categories to determine an updated champion. — Back in April, we ran a series of useful … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
TikTok plans to invest $1.5B in a joint venture with GoTo, aiming to comply with regulations in Indonesia so that TikTok can restart its shopping service there — - Chinese firm will combine its shopping business with GoTo unit — TikTok has used Indonesia as template for global shopping push
More: The Information, Financial Times, Reuters, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and Nikkei Asia. X: @kepspxbghvs
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022 — SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe … | Washington Post: |
Sources detail Disinfo Lab, run by an Indian intelligence officer, that is behind a covert influence operation on social media discrediting PM Modi's critics — NEW DELHI — Since 2020, an opaque organization calling itself the Disinfo Lab has published lengthy dossiers and social media posts claiming … | Wall Street Journal: |
NY state, IBM, and others plan to invest $10B in a chip research facility at the University at Albany, set to include ASML's advanced chip-making equipment — Planned facility to include advanced chip-making equipment made by ASML — New York state is joining chip companies to invest $10 billion …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the race among chip giants to make 2nm chips, as Samsung and Intel see the next leap in chip manufacturing a chance to close the gap with TSMC — TSMC, Samsung and Intel battle to create ‘2 nanometre’ chips in moves that will shape the future of $500bn industry
More: Wccftech and Taipei Times
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple caused Beeper Mini's outage, which began on December 8, “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to access iMessage — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, from investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources say the deal values the 22-person startup at ~$2B — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots.
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