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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: @lauren@mastodon …, @lauren@mastodon …, @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @LeslieBurns@legal.social, @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 talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, and 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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Mastodon: @therobburgessshow …, @StefanThinks@beige.party, @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @erosalie@infosec.exchange, @kevinrns@mstdn.social, and @kbeninato@mstdn.party
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Forums: news.ycombinator.com and r/RealTesla
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Paris-based Mistral AI raised €385M from a16z, Lightspeed, and others, sources say at a ~$2B valuation, and releases its open-source La plateforme model — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.
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Mastodon: @MattHodges@mastodon.social. X: @jcsamuelian, @eladgil, @space_colonist, @dctanner, @dchaplot, @alexsablay, @paulbz, @dchaplot, @_philschmid, @tianle_cai, @omarsar0, @alphasignalai, @art_zucker, @karpathy, @realgeorgehotz, @levelsio, @josephjacks_, @unsorsodicorda, @maccaw, @nicoritschel, @abacaj, @arthurmensch, @basedbeffjezos, @lulumeservey, @jxmnop, @abacaj, and @vikhyatk
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| 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| Washington Post: |
US officials: China's military is ramping up its ability to disrupt key US infrastructure, including targeting a Hawaii utility and a West Coast port in 2023 — A utility in Hawaii, a West Coast port and a pipeline are among the victims in the past year, officials say
X: @matt_schrader_, @ericgeller, @nakashimae, @rc_greenway, and @nakashimae
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to give added weighting to streams of songs mixed in Dolby Atmos from 2024, possibly leading to higher royalties, to push Spatial Audio — - Service will more heavily weigh songs offered in Dolby Atmos — Push could encourage more music labels to adopt the format| 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 …
More: TNW, AltFi, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, UKTN, Silicon Canals, Tech Funding News, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, New.blicio.us, Bloomberg, Finextra, and Crowdfund Insider. X: @sumup
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The US awards the first CHIPS Act grant to BAE Systems, giving the defense contractor $35M to boost production of chips used in F-15 and F-35 fighter jets — The award, which will go to BAE Systems, is part of a new government program aimed at creating a more secure supply of semiconductors.| Quynh Nguyen / Bloomberg: |
Vietnamese media reports Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sees Vietnam as a potential second home for the Silicon Valley company and plans to open a design center there — Huang, speaking at a Hanoi semiconductor and artificial intelligence conference hosted by a Vietnam ministry Monday … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry appoints John Giamatteo, an executive since 2021, as its CEO and no longer plans to spin off its IoT and cybersecurity businesses — BlackBerry will reorganize to keep that business in house alongside its cybersecurity unit, the Waterloo, Canada-based company said in a statement Monday.
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, and BlackBerry
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A look at the race among chip giants to make 2nm chips, as Samsung and Intel identify the next leap in chip manufacturing as 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| 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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