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| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
Draft docs: the European Commission plans to simplify some of its privacy rules, including GDPR, to boost AI growth and slash red tape for businesses in Europe — BRUSSELS — European Union officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI …
More: Reuters, noyb, Euractiv, CSO, Implicator.ai, Datamation, TechRadar, Fortune, Capacity, and WinBuzzer
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Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @vedransekara, @gateklons, and @glynmoody
| Wired: |
Apple removes two of China's most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in the country, citing a Cyberspace Administration of China order — The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China's marginalized LGBTQ+ community.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports October sales were up 16.9%, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 38%+ YTD — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported slowing growth in monthly revenue as investors debate the sustainability …
More: Capital Brief, CoinDesk, MarketWatch, Benzinga, PC Gamer, COINOTAG NEWS, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list — After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room.| Fast Company: |
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs — For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers.
More: Technical.ly. X: @bcardarella. LinkedIn: Keith Instone. Bluesky: @carnage4life, @rufus-hickok, @tnewmsblues, @stradicat, and @somershade
Mastodon: @MrBirch@beige.party, @shish@techhub.social, and @ngate@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/agi
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more — Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?| Billy Gray / Wall Street Journal: |
Rumble says it will acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether — The deal brings together two companies backed by stablecoin issuer Tether — Rumble said it would acquire German artificial … | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze — Blockchain startup Monad will be first project to sell its token on new platform — Coinbase Global is launching a new platform …
More: Decrypt, CoinDesk, Coinbase, Reuters, Benzinga, Bloomberg, CoinGape, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @coinbase and @brian_armstrong
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises 1,000x more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave — Three former Meta and Google silicon executives on Monday announced they've raised a total of $100 million to build technology …
More: Majestic Labs and Globes
| Evan Gorelick / New York Times: |
A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use — More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
More: Bloomberg Law, Gizmodo, and Futurism
Bluesky: @skynetandchill.com, @lauridonahue, @carnage4life, and @thiagokrause
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he plans to give “normal people” exposure to AI startups via Robinhood Ventures' fund set to invest in 5+ “best in class” startups — CEO Vlad Tenev plans to offer shares in a fund that holds a handful of private artificial intelligence companies
More: Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, Implicator.ai, and Blockonomi
X: @jimcramer and @discoplomacy
Bluesky: @carlquintanilla and @nataliegreenpeer
| Niko Gallogly / New York Times: |
Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers — The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
EchoTik estimates TikTok Shop sold $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for between $4B and $4.5B, up 125% QoQ — TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.| Kat Tenbarge / Wired: |
Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism — The show, which follows David's ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.Sponsor Posts
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