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Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US teenagers, despite internal research validating concerns — For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.
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Forums: r/law, r/technology, r/NPR, and r/neoliberal
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers “buy” digital media — The company appears to be getting ahead of a California law going into force next year.
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| New York Times: |
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier — Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, due to which users lost access to their accounts, to human moderators, not AI systems — Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access to their accounts …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize AI models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the past 12 months, up 81.4% YoY — Humans have automated tasks for centuries. Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they've got a name for their solution: agents.
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| Business Insider: |
Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 8%+ — - Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking — In letters to AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, lawmakers ask about proposed measures the companies will take to protect U.S. wiretap systems
More: CyberScoop, The Record, Washington Examiner, and Nextgov/FCW
| Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia: |
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off — KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …
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| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their use of social media and Slack — Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate for better working conditions …
More: Bloomberg Law
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Apple opens an applied research laboratory in Shenzhen; Chinese state media says it will become the company's “most extensive” lab outside the US — The new facility in the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong tech cooperation zone is one of several Apple research centres in China
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
X drops Unilever from its “advertiser boycott” lawsuit after making a deal with Unilever “to continue our partnership” as part of an “ecosystem-wide solution” — X is dropping claims against Unilever in its lawsuit that accuses advertisers and brands …
More: New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and TVNewsCheck
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months — CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to expand its business and data center portfolio.
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