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January 7, 2025, 2:00 PM

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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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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally  —  “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta is dropping fact-checking after incoming FCC head Brendan Carr threatened it over such practices, undercutting the notion that Meta's move was principled  —  I have to commend Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new policy chief Joel Kaplan on their timing.
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously  —  Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts “sexually suggestive content”
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  —  Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today.  After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
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Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years  —  Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads  —  Lenovo is trying an experiment.  In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
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) …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News to more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has ~125M monthly users  —  Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia  —  Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks  —  Imagine you're asking a computer-using agent from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to find and order a new outfit for your upcoming holiday party …
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Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499  —  With a notebook PC with a screen that rolls, a monitor with directional audio, and the first third-party SteamOS gaming handheld, Lenovo is hitting CES 2025 hard.
Reuters:
Trump announces a $20B investment in US data centers, saying the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United States.

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