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Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app — President-elect Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts. He has since changed his position on the issue.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google debuts Whisk, an image generator that takes other images as prompts to suggest the subject, scene, and style, and uses the new, “latest” Imagen 3 version — Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text prompt.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a video generation model that can create clips over two minutes long at resolutions up to 4K, available in VideoFX via a waitlist — Google DeepMind, Google's flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M+ DAUs, revealing its DAU figure for the first time, and 300M+ MAUs, up from 275M+ MAUs in November 2024 — It's a notable milestone not just because it's a big number; it's also the first time Meta has a daily active user figure publicly.
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| Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Australia's privacy watchdog says Meta agreed to a AU$50M settlement over a 2020 Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging 300K+ Facebook users' data was exposed — The Australian Information Commissioner said on Tuesday it has withdrawn civil penalty proceedings against Meta Platforms (META.O) …
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Waymo plans to test its robotaxis in Tokyo in early 2025, its first international expansion, partnering with taxi operator Nihon Kotsu and taxi hailing app GO — Alphabet-owned Waymo announced Monday that it will start testing its autonomous vehicles in Tokyo in early 2025, the company's first step toward international expansion.
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| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The European Commission opens a formal DSA investigation into TikTok over concerns foreign actors used it to interfere in the Romanian presidential elections — The probe comes after judges in the country annulled the outcome of the first round of presidential elections, citing concerns of Russian interference| Financial Times: |
The UK opens a consultation on AI and copyright, and aims to offer an “opt out” copyright exception, force companies to open models to scrutiny, and more — Consultation could see easier access to copyrighted works but require tech groups to be clearer on what they have used| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework releases a $39 modular component to add two extra M.2 slots to the Laptop 16, letting users have 26TB+ of storage, and updates the Laptop 16's cooling — The most ambitious laptop ever made just got a long-promised modular upgrade. … At launch, you only had two options …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to logged-in users, not just subscribers, and says users can set ChatGPT Search as their browser's default search engine — The product, called ChatGPT Search, will be available to any user who is logged in with an account for the chatbot across …
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Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims — Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
A Taiwanese official says the country is in talks with Amazon's Kuiper over satellite internet as its current OneWeb deal does not offer sufficient capacity — Minister says Eutelsat OneWeb network falling short and Elon Musk's Starlink ‘not an option’ given his Chinese links
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| Sonia Rolley / Reuters: |
Congo files criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain — The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple (AAPL.O) subsidiaries in France and Belgium …
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Sources: Tesla received a high number of complaints about HW4 self-driving hardware in recent Teslas; source: Tesla service was told to downplay safety concerns — Brand-new Tesla vehicles are experiencing self-driving computer failures, which are resulting in significant problems.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
The US FTC issues long-awaited rules requiring companies to display the full price of hotels, concert tickets, and more up front, rather than hiding “junk fees” — The industries must display the full price of a hotel room, concert ticket or sporting event upfront to customers or face potential federal punishment.
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| Elisha Bala-Gbogbo / Reuters: |
Nigeria arrests 792 suspects, including 148 Chinese and 40 Filipino nationals, in a raid on a building believed to be a crypto romance scam call center — Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it had arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured victims … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018 — Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions …
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Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers finalizes $406M in CHIPS Act funding, part of a plan to invest nearly $4B to help build plants in Texas and Missouri — GlobalWafers Co., a Taiwanese maker of silicon wafers used in chip manufacturing, finalized a deal to receive as much as $406 million … Sponsor Posts
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