Techmeme: Telegram says it removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, and its new moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

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While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump stood out from other industries — It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

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Charles Rollet / TechCrunch:

Telegram says it removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, and its new moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest — Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested …

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Natasha Singer / New York Times:

How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos — Ricardo Martinez, an 11th grader, was in his high school lunchroom in April when a mass brawl erupted.

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Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:

TikTok critics like Marco Rubio and Brendan Carr are set to occupy senior roles in the Trump administration, highlighting Trump's murky stance about the app — - Longtime China critic Helberg named under secretary of State — Rubio pushed for congress's TikTok divest-or-ban law last year

Jason Parham / Wired:

A look at Blacksky, the Bluesky custom feed run by a team of six moderators, which is slowly turning into the main avenue for many Black users on the service — The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky.

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George Hammond / Financial Times:

A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security — Silicon Valley investor and podcast host has joined Elon Musk in securing a key role in incoming US administration

John Towfighi / CNN:

How Sony turned itself around by innovating its games business beyond consoles and making acquisitions to expand its IP and focus on original content — The last time Sony was worth this much on the stock market, Bill Clinton was president and the PlayStation 2 was about to debut on American store shelves.

More: Screen Rant

Pieter Haeck / Politico:

The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals — BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race.

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Andrew Lawrence / The Guardian:

Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams — Sports stars are rushing to promote coins and exchanges. But they are stepping into a world of which they often have scant knowledge

More: Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com

Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:

An interview with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS keynote talk about visual intelligence, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D spatial intelligence, and more — Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. She played a major role …

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