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Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for teenagers despite internal research validating concerns — For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.| Business Insider: |
Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing Musk's history of missing FSD targets, achieving scale without rideshare partnerships, more — - Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
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Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking — In letters to AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, lawmakers ask about proposed measures the companies will take to protect U.S. wiretap systems| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY — Humans have automated tasks for centuries. Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they've got a name for their solution: agents.
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| Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia: |
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off — KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers “buy” digital media — The company appears to be getting ahead of a California law going into force next year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store — Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; amongst the funds that invested in crypto, 33% plan to invest more in 2024 — - That's up from 29% last year, per new AIMA and PwC report — Many traditional hedge funds are active in crypto derivatives
More: Bitcoin Insider and The Daily Hodl
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Apple opens an applied research laboratory in Shenzhen; Chinese state media says it will become the company's “most extensive” lab outside the US — The new facility in the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong tech cooperation zone is one of several Apple research centres in China
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A look at Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump campaign contacted X to prevent the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier — Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months — CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to expand its business and data center portfolio.| Decrypt: |
Uniswap Labs unveils Unichain, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism tech, to enable faster, cheaper transactions and better liquidity across chains — Uniswap will launch an Ethereum layer-2 network called Unichain in an effort to cut fees, boost liquidity, and more.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive — In August, a federal judge ruled that Google had illegally maintained its monopoly in search and search text advertising.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD launches its Instinct MI325X GPU to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips and says production will start in 2024, but doesn't disclose its pricing — AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.
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