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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia debuts the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of models to advance agentic AI, in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes, on Nvidia's site and Hugging Face — Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision — The PC manufacturer's new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
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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| 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 … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time — Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is introducing what might be its most controversial “project” yet — an … | 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.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+ laptop chips with an integrated memory architecture, up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, and claims 84% faster rendering than the M4 Pro MacBook — Disruption is a daily thing. — AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas …
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| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit — Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
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