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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Donald Trump signs an EO pausing the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and aims to protect TikTok's providers from liability — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to hit pause on a law banning TikTok and to provide a liability shield …
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| Washington Post: |
Legal experts and lawmakers: Trump's EO halting the TikTok ban may not protect companies that host or distribute the app, as Trump cannot overturn Congress' law — Measure directs Justice Department to not enforce the law for 75 days while administration determines “the appropriate course forward.”
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Card game Marvel Snap, published by ByteDance's Nuverse, is back online in the US; developer Second Dinner plans to find a new publisher to avoid future bans — Marvel Snap is back online in the US after access was cut off Saturday night due to the law that banned TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Trump signs an EO renaming the US Digital Service as the US DOGE Service, directing agency heads to form “DOGE Teams” of at least four employees within 30 days — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk is likely to get a West Wing office, putting him close to Donald Trump, after Musk had for many days been asking about his level of access — The world's richest man had been expected to be situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but a West Wing office would give him closer access to President Trump.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump revokes Biden's 2023 executive order that sought to reduce the risks that AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security, fulfilling a GOP pledge — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks …
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
How purchasing Trump's memecoin, of which he reportedly holds $50B+ at January 19 prices, could be used to buy favors without actually transferring him funds — Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money. — Financial disclosure: I hold a modest amount of BTC and ETH.
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| Politico: |
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
MicroStrategy bought 11,000 bitcoin for ~$1.1B, an average of $101,191, between January 13 and 20, taking its holding to 461,000, worth $48B+, or 2%+ of supply — - MicroStrategy has purchased another 11,000 BTC for approximately $1.1 billion at an average price of $101,191 per bitcoin.
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| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
During a speech after Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes”; Musk posted a three-minute video of his speech to X — The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes …
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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.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Chinese smartphone sales fell 3.2% YoY in Q4 2024, the only 2024 quarter with a YoY drop; Apple fell 18.2% while Huawei rose 15.5% for an 18.1% market share — - During the quarter, Huawei secured the top spot, followed by Xiaomi. Huawei's sales grew 15.5% YoY, supported by the release of the Mate 70 series in early December.
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Huawei plans to challenge Nvidia in China's AI chip market by positioning its latest Ascend AI processors as the hardware of choice for “inference” tasks — Tech giant pushes its artificial intelligence chips as hardware of choice for ‘inference’ tasks
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