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Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”  —  Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”  —  Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul …
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content”  —  The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on”
Fox News:
Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta's “presentation was excellent”
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's HR team, aiming to “minimize disruption” internally  —  “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils the $500+ Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, alongside a Windows version for $600+, both available starting in May  —  Lenovo is trying an experiment.  In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value it at $60B  —  The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.
Associated Press:
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets  —  The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT …
Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
OnePlus 13 review: excellent battery life, six years of security updates, solid build quality with IP69 rating, but most AI tools require internet connectivity  —  OnePlus got everything right with the OnePlus 13 by fixing old problems and breaking new ground in design, build quality, and cameras.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal information of 2M+ residents in a 2021 cyberattack  —  Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit against T-Mobile on Monday, claiming that the Bellevue …
Reuters:
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over reports of four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature  —  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and DLSS 4, which can use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame  —  As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February
Michael Flaherty / Axios:
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business  —  - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Addepar, a provider of wealth management and investment software, is in talks to raise $250M at a pre-money valuation of $3.25B, up from ~$2B in 2021  —  - Over $7 trillion of assets are managed on Addepar platforms  — Software company's clients include Morgan Stanley, Jefferies

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