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December 13, 2023, 11:15 AM

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Zoë Schiffer / The Verge:
A look at Twitter's culture prior to Elon Musk's acquisition, when the company focused on improving the health of online conversations, not growth at all costs  —  the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power.  The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023  —  - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say  — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting developers build apps, available for free at launch with limits, and adds Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI  —  Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features …
Keith Laing / Bloomberg:
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ vehicles after the NHTSA issued a recall and called its safety measures inadequate and open to misuse, after a long probe  —  - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse  — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer signs a multiyear licensing deal with OpenAI, which will pay to use content from Politico, Business Insider, and others to train its AI models  —  Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
Bloomberg:
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B  —  - Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September  — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to now require a judge's order before handing over users' push notification data, instead of only a subpoena  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement …
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
The EU Council and Parliament agree a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, possibly costing the industry billions  —  European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 new countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US  —  Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Coinbase Asset Management debuts Project Diamond, combining Coinbase's custody tools, wallet, L2 network Base, and Circle's USDC to create a capital marketplace  —  “Project Diamond” lets institutions create and trade digital native versions of financial instruments such as debt using Base in a regulated manner.
Malak Saleh / Engadget:
Meta is working to extend its fact-checking to Threads early next year; its fact-checking now only rates Threads content matching posts on Facebook or Instagram  —  The program will roll out next year, according to executives.  —  Threads is going to make an effort to moderate more of the user-generated content on the platform.
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days  —  Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, and simplifies its product portfolio  —  Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users  —  +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division has announced …
Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos  —  I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild.  Here's how the experimental feature works.  —  “Hey, Meta.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location”  —  Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed  —  Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
A profile of Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit ad watchdog that works to cut off the revenue streams of far-right creators and publishers  —  Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones  —  When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer …
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024  —  A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices  —  Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.

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