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The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure — The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal TikTok memo: the company is “disappointed” the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation — TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft adds GPT-4 Turbo to the free tier of Copilot, replacing GPT-4; Copilot Pro users still have the option to use GPT-4 — Microsoft is boosting the performance of its Copilot generative AI chatbot today. It has been confirmed that all free Copilot users can now access the GPT-4 Turbo large language model from OpenAI.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later in 2024, letting users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types — Microsoft is finally creating a single version of Microsoft Teams that will allow you to switch between personal and work accounts easily.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website — Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 3 Haiku, tailored for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, saying Haiku is “the fastest and most affordable model” in its class — San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models.| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to shut down CrowdTangle in August 2024 and replace it with Meta Content Library, available to academic and nonprofit researchers, not news outlets — CrowdTangle, a source for embarrassing articles about Facebook and Instagram, has been used to track conspiracy theories, viral content
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Alibaba's AliExpress over illegal content concerns, product recommendations, and more, the third DSA investigation — The European Commission on Thursday said it opened a formal investigation into AliExpress, an international e-commerce website run … | Hugo Barra / Hugo's Blog: |
A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more — Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, MIXED Reality News, Cult of Mac, and The Verge
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration — Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payment company, has released its long-in-the-works Bitcoin hardware wallet — but you can't use cryptocurrency to buy it.
More: Bitkey, Coinmonks, The Daily Hodl, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, Decrypt, and CoinDesk
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in 2019, Donald Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine social media campaign in China to turn public opinion against the government and Xi — Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign … | Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: |
Lenovo plans to release the €599+ Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in the EMEA and other Asian markets later in March — It's set to arrive in March — Technology manufacturer Lenovo has announced that the Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet … | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue down 5.7% YoY to ~$59B, as cloud and networking demand falls, net profit up 33% YoY to $1.69B, and expects flat 2024 consumer demand — Revenue fell on lackluster demand for cloud and networking products and a slowing personal-computer market
More: Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Bloomberg
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says estimating the impact is premature — Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers' total organic traffic — Google launched its artificial intelligence … | Russ Crupnick / MusicWatch: |
US paid music subscribers hit a record 109M in 2023, rising to 136M including SiriusXM and Amazon Prime Music; seven of every 10 US millennials pay to subscribe — MusicWatch Annual Music Study points to continued health of the US music market, a record number of paid subscribers, and increased spend on recorded music.Sponsor Posts
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