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| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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| Fox News: |
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” — FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to …
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| New York Times: |
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” — The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and DLSS 4, which can use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame — As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years — Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally — “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations” — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul …
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| BBC: |
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications — Apple is facing a fresh call to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News to more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has ~125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
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| Michael Flaherty / Axios: |
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business — - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …
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Forums: r/photography and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for its AMAs — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reddit unveiled new trends tools aimed at businesses and a new ad format …
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| Catarina Demony / Reuters: |
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn't cover deepfakes — Creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakes” will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said on Tuesday … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia unveil an AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a cohost — Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams … | Axios: |
TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations — - ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok they won't pay attention to its other apps.| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499 — With a notebook PC with a screen that rolls, a monitor with directional audio, and the first third-party SteamOS gaming handheld, Lenovo is hitting CES 2025 hard.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads — Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
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| Reuters: |
Trump announces a $20B investment in US data centers, saying the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United States.
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849 — Lenovo is trying to streamline what a Windows laptop can look like in terms of screen real estate. One way that the company is doing … | Reuters: |
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over reports of four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
More: Ars Technica, Detroit Free Press, Electrek, Benzinga, Jalopnik, Bloomberg, and Proactive
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| Adam James / The Block: |
Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims — - FTX EU has been acquired by Backpack Exchange following regulatory and legal approval. — Backpack EU will take responsibility …
More: Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, CryptoGlobe, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cryptonews
| Reuters: |
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will invest ~$3B to expand Azure cloud and AI capacity in India and train 10M people in AI by 2030, after upskilling 2.4M in 2024 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest about $3 billion to expand capacity for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud-computing services in India … Sponsor Posts
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