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| Politico: |
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; 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.
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Bluesky: @amycastor, @mattbinder, @jessefelder, @mcuban, @acyn, @3r1ng, @glcarlstrom, @petegrif, and @atrupar.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Threads: @aaron.rupar and @kolchak
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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 … | Tim Copeland / The Block: |
A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other unofficial coins called “official” — - A memecoin called Official Barron Trump rose to a $460 million market cap on speculation that it might have been launched by Barron Trump himself.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models — DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump revokes a 2023 executive order signed by Biden that sought to reduce the risks that AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok — Founder of app's parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year — SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing …
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| The Information: |
Source: Meta is offering creators with large TikTok followings bonuses ranging from $10K to $50K/month to post videos on Instagram Reels before other platforms — Instagram isn't letting a good TikTok crisis go to waste. — Representatives for the Meta Platforms-owned app in the last week … | 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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X: @x, @x, @congelatoreh, @myleswagner, @levie, and @lindayax
Forums: r/Twitter and r/technology
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Bluesky: @bsky.app, @miamoe88, @danabra.mov, @ryanhatesthis, @techviews, @jay.bsky.team, @bsky.app, and @bsky.app. Forums: r/technology
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EC says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated, voluntary code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA — Meta's (META.O) Facebook, Elon Musk's X, Google's (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Trump signs an EO to end “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to probe if the Biden admin engaged in censorship of Americans' views — President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to stop “government censorship,” a sweeping action …
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| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
During a speech following Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes” — The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes at a rally held at Capitol One Arena on Monday …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes — A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford's hands-free advanced driver assistance system known …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Metropolis, an AI-powered parking service, acquires Oosto, formerly known as AnyVision, for just $125M in stock, well under the $380M it raised over the years — The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits.
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