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After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles — Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …
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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @renee.diresta, @documentingmeta, and @chriswelch
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sources: Tim Cook will personally donate $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural committee in the spirit of unity; Apple is not expected to donate — The company is not expected to give. — Cook, with a consistent presence in Washington, has made it clear over the years that he believes …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, The Information, Mediaite, Pixel Envy, Variety, Deadline, iClarified, Advocate, Seeking Alpha, and Daring Fireball
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Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/technology, r/apple, Beehaw, and MacRumors Forums
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon — The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon.
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Bluesky: @caezar.io, @metacurity.com, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @newsguy
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it expects to spend $80B in FY 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle AI workloads, with 50%+ of the spending in the US — Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post.
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LinkedIn: Pankaj Kedia and Rich Miller
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and Slashdot
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering — - Unredacted lawsuit claims TikTok knew about teen safety issues — Lawsuit also alleges company facilitated money laundering
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars — Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. … Over the years, Samsung notably hasn't supported Dolby Vision HDR …
More: Samsung Newsroom, TechRadar, FlatpanelsHD, TweakTown, Forbes, 9to5Google, and Advanced Television
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Getty Images is exploring a merger with rival Shutterstock; Getty jumped 13% for a $983M market value, Shutterstock rose 7.9% for a $1.1B market value — - Getty weighing how to structure combo with stock-photo rival … Getty has been weighing how to structure a combination …
More: Reuters and The Information
| Max Woolf / Max Woolf's Blog: |
In a test, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” iteratively improved the code's features and speed, but more aggressive prompt engineering added bugs — In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Bluesky: @minimaxir and @kentindell. Mastodon: @serge@babka.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/nottheonion, r/ClaudeAI, and r/programming
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North America's ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US — Sameer Singh will remain at the company until the end of February — Sameer Singh, TikTok's North America head of ad sales … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Apple Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more — Apple Fitness Plus is getting a fresh makeover in the Strava app. The two companies just announced they're collaborating to revamp …
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock — Later, an influencer and social-media marketing company, acquired social commerce app Mavely for $250 million
More: Chicago Business Journal, Mavely, Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., PRWeek, Forbes, The Boston Globe, Adweek, Silicon Republic, MarTech, Benzinga, eMarketer, Later, VentureBeat, and Axios
Bluesky: @theopriestley.com. LinkedIn: Justin Gerrard, Ashley Sonlin, Sean O'Brien, Nihad Ahmed, Drew Berkowitz, and Meghan Morasan
| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control — The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Bluesky: @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @tsmog, @babysquirrels, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @molly.wiki, @spbeaudet, @dangillmor, @marciano, @ariannaciccone, @socalmom, and @jasonkoebler
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