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TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation — Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia …
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| NPR: |
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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LinkedIn: Cecily Kellogg, Scott Galloway, and Carl D. Marci
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/NPR, r/law, and r/technology
| Business Insider: |
Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8% — - Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
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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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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/inthenews, r/politics, and r/pittsburgh
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems — Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access …
More: The Verge, Android Headlines, Thurrott, and Engadget
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Bluesky: @kevinkleinpdx.bsky.social and @linh.social
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November — Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell …
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Forums: r/GeForceNOW, r/xcloud, r/xbox, and r/Games
| 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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Forums: r/SteamDeck, r/gamingnews, r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/technology, and r/technews
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle — Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. — Based on the filing alone … | Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay — One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
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Forums: r/uber, r/newyorkcity, and r/nyc
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB accuses Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their social media and Slack use, its second Apple complaint in a month — Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Nvidia-backed cloud GPU provider 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 …
More: Bloomberg, CoreWeave, Axios, Invezz, Tech Startups, and SiliconANGLE
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the past 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: The Register, Nextgov/FCW, CyberScoop, Washington Examiner, The Record, and Bloomberg
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