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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties” — The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
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| Avery Lotz / Axios: |
Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership — President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,
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| Wall Street Journal: |
China suggests it is willing to work with Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying it would block any forced TikTok sale — Founder of app's parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year — SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing to work … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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| Alan Suderman / Associated Press: |
Bitcoin passed $108K hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after topping $100K for the first time in December 2024 before falling to ~$90K — The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration …
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| Politico: |
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a $9B+ market cap, is still in the top 25 most valuable cryptocurrencies; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look” — Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.| Axios: |
Melania Trump launches her own Solana coin, MELANIA, offered by MKT World, a company associated with Melania Trump; TRUMP fell ~36% on the news — It's not clear how many are on the market now. — According to the token's site, the team is only setting aside 35% for themselves …
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| CBS News: |
Source: DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy will leave the task force, as he plans a campaign for Ohio governor; sources: Musk associates undercut Ramaswamy for weeks — Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming in February on iOS and later on Android, after US app stores removed CapCut as part of the divest-or-ban law — Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance's video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches video custom feeds for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “we had to get in on the video action, too” — It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok's services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US in the app's bottom bar, letting users vertically scroll through short videos, after launching a TV app in 2024 — Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed.
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| Megan Sauer / CNBC: |
An interview with Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, which was acquired by Prosus for $1.8B in 2021, on his plans to donate half his net worth and more — Plenty of wealthy people plan to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes. Jeff Atwood says he'll actually do it within the next five years.| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors — The spy agency is trying to give its teams better tools and make it easier for the private sector to develop technology for their secretive work.
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