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| NPR: |
Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for 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.
More: CNN, Forbes, and Quartz
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LinkedIn: Scott Galloway and Carl D. Marci
Forums: r/law, r/technology, and r/NPR
| 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.
More: How-To Geek, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Game Rant, Gameranx, Mashable, PC Games Insider, IGN, PlayStation LifeStyle, Neowin, and Blue's News
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, r/technews, and r/pcgaming
| New York Times: |
A look at Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump campaign contacted X to prevent 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.
More: New Republic, Raw Story, Washington Post, Mediaite, emptywheel, and The Wrap
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Forums: r/pittsburgh and r/politics
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 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.
Threads: @kylie.robison. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @spirosmargaris. LinkedIn: Ben Waber. Forums: r/technology
| 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| 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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| 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 7%+ — - Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store — Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; amongst the funds that invested in crypto, 33% plan to invest more in 2024 — - That's up from 29% last year, per new AIMA and PwC report — Many traditional hedge funds are active in crypto derivatives
More: Bitcoin Insider and The Daily Hodl
| 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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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses grew to $1.3B, up from $512M YoY; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines — Bytedance has set aside the ten-figure sum to pay regulatory fines in Europe while facing a barrage of investigations and lawsuits across …
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| 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.
More: Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, CoreWeave, Axios, and Invezz
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US — OpenAI promised payouts to custom GPT creators. Now most are turning to outside sources for revenue.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in negotiations with California lawmakers, Google insisted on taxpayer funding as a precondition to spending $110M to support the journalism industry — - Tech giant, state to spend $180 million to aid news industry — Company pushed for taxpayer funds; beat back tougher bills
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