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Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival  —  Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.  —  Elon Musk's social media platform X …
Financial Times:
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month  —  Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts
Dan Primack / Axios:
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing  —  Tencent Holdings has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model, Hunyuan T1, that rivals DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing.
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond  —  OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week.  But how does interacting with it affect us?  Does it make us more or less lonely?
Bloomberg:
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX  —  Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat.  —  Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023  —  When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's board says it will “carefully review and consider” Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison

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David Pan / Bloomberg:
The crypto-lending industry, nearly wiped out in the last bear market, is staging a comeback as Cantor Fitzgerald launches a $2B Bitcoin financing business

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Paul Liu / The Keyword:
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
Gael Cooper / CNET:
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts
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