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| Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: |
Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess — Hi everyone! Mathew Ingram here. This is The Torment Nexus (you can find out more about me and this newsletter — and why I chose to call it that — in my inaugural post.)
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X: @rajendrazore, @photomatt, @photomatt, @mathewi, @photomatt, @mathewi, @mathewi, and @mathewi. Forums: Hacker News
| Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: |
An interview with Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov on Tesla fans' claims that Waymo's software relies on hand-coded rules, can't handle freeway driving, and more — I talked to Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo. — This evening, Elon Musk will take the stage in Los Angeles for an event titled “We Robot.”
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Threads: @david_ingram. Bluesky: @davidneilhamilton.bsky.social. X: @joshcmorrison and @jordanmcgillis. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Dario Amodei: |
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more — How AI Could Transform the World for the Better — I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
More: TechCrunch, Marginal REVOLUTION, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and r/slatestarcodex
| Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: |
TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation — Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November — Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell …
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Forums: r/GeForceNOW, r/xcloud, r/xbox, and r/Games
| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay — One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …
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Forums: r/uber, r/newyorkcity, and r/nyc
| New York Times: |
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop 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.
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself — The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
More: NBC News, Axios, Digby's Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Scientific American, emptywheel, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, Adweek, CBS News, The Guardian, Vox, and New York Times
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LinkedIn: Rob Karpati and Eric Deggans
Forums: Hacker News, r/skeptic, r/Foodforthought, r/centrist, r/NorthCarolina, r/politics, r/Destiny, r/usanews, r/neoliberal, r/Miami, and r/technology
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Adobe expects US BNPL spending to grow 11.4% YoY to $18.5B in Q4 2024; the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia says most BNPL users make their payments on time — As Amazon's Prime Day kicked off the holiday shopping season this week, U.S. consumers are expected to spend a record $18.5 billion using buy … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
PitchBook: VCs in the US invested $37.5B via 2,794 deals in Q3 2024, down 32% QoQ, despite some big AI rounds, as a lack of exits restricts new deal activity — Venture capital's lack of exits is restricting new deal activity, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle — Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. — Based on the filing alone … | NPR: |
Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US 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.
More: Associated Press, Japan Today, NPR, The Age, canoe, Politico, Inc, Business Insider, Louisville Public Media, Washington Post, New Republic, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, WBUR, Salon, Quartz, CNN, and Forbes
Threads: @mac_ryan_, @mac_ryan_, @jawnpaczkowski, and @bobbyallyn
X: @thomasgermain, @kaytaylorrea, @flytrikeair, @d_h_sanders, @zamaan_qureshi, @ryanvanvelzer, @bobbyallyn, @peterhamby, @ttp_updates, @davidgura, @rylandky, @nprinskeep, @darakerr, and @viacristiano
LinkedIn: Cecily Kellogg, Scott Galloway, and Carl D. Marci
Forums: r/Revu, r/neoliberal, r/NPR, r/law, r/technology, and Beehaw
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