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| Paris Martineau / The Information: |
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027 — In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
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X: @zack415, @wexler, @zacharyleelee, @abebrown716, @parismartineau, @viacristiano, @pat_hedger, @robertfreundlaw, and @tpapres. Forums: r/technology
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 — The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.
More: U.S. Department …, Office of Foreign …, DL News, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Bitcoin Insider, The Record, Bitcoin Magazine, The Daily Hodl, Axios, Reuters, Watcher Guru, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, BleepingComputer, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @jchervinsky, @balajis, @seancasten, @brendanpedersen, @zerohedge, @seancasten, @valkenburgh, @lefterisjp, @autismcapital, @neerajka, @valkenburgh, and @iampaulgrewal. LinkedIn: Dimitri Michaloutsos. Forums: Slashdot
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week — Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, The Information, Variety, Regent, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Business Wire, en.ain.ua, The Wrap, Adweek, and MediaPost
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Threads: @thekenyeung, @crumbler, and @technologizer
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LinkedIn: Michael Lin, Matt Burns, Kwaku Otchere, and Frederic Lardinois
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly” — The AI search startup laid out its bid for buying, and rebuilding, TikTok.
More: Perplexity, Washington Examiner, Decrypt, Agence France-Presse, MediaPost, and The Hill
| Financial Times: |
Sources: KKR, Coatue, and other ByteDance investors are exploring buying out Chinese investors from TikTok US to assure Trump that it is free of Chinese control — General Atlantic, Susquehanna, KKR and Coatue discuss acquiring more stakes in viral app's US operations alongside Oracle
More: Engadget, The Information, Reuters, Digital Music News, Politico, and New York Post. X: @danprimack
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January — The companies have notified regulators in Dubai about the discussions as Deribit holds a license there, which would be taken over by any acquirer, some of the people said.| The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives — Today, we're excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down …
More: eWeek, The Register, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
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| Gael Cooper / CNET: |
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option — Don't expect to pay for a taco in installments — a Klarna rep says the credit options can only be used on purchases of $35 and up.
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| Wired: |
Interviews with 50+ current and ex-staffers reveal Google's two-year race to catch up with OpenAI, including through layoffs and lowering some guardrails — The search giant should've been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn't. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.
More: Quartz, John Battelle's Search Blog, and TechCentral.ie
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Sources: Katie Haun is raising $1B across two new crypto-focused funds as her Haun Ventures is close to deploying most of the $1.5B raised in 2022 — Katie Haun is back on the fundraising circuit. The former federal prosecutor, who raked in $1.5 billion for her record-breaking debut venture funds in 2022 … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023 — Ticket resale marketplace StubHub on Friday filed for an IPO, saying that it plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
More: Financial Times, US Securities …, Variety, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership with May Mobility in Atlanta, starting summer 2025 — Robotaxis using self-driving technology can already be found on the streets of at least four U.S. cities and even more abroad. — Lyft is about to enter the increasingly competitive world of robotaxis.
More: The Verge, RetailWire, The San Francisco Standard, Lyft, and Tech in Asia
LinkedIn: Jeremy Bird and David Risher
| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models — Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. — When employees at meta started developing …
More: The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Northern District of California, Sherwood News, Music Ally, The Canberra Times, The Overspill, and ARTnews
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Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @timnitGebru@dair …, @ErikJonker@mastodon.social, @lizmonster@universeodon.com, @ravenbait@mastodon.scot, @JediSoth@chirp.enworld.org, @jwilker@wandering.shop, @michael_w_busch …, @harrymccracken@mastodon …, @rr4idic@mastodon.online, @invicticide@mastodon …, @susankayequinn@wandering.shop, @thecommongreen@mastodon.scot, and @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
Threads: @bostonjoan, @wurdsmyth, @nwbrownboi, @nwbrownboi, @nwbrownboi, @nwbrownboi, @jscalzi, and @karaswisher
X: @bradthor, @garymarcus, @mininghistory, @neilturkewitz, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @garymarcus, @jason_kint, and @elamin88
LinkedIn: Zaki Khalid, Lorenzo Thione, Eamon Costello, Alison Croggon, Fiona Moore, Melanie Dusseau, and Chris Chapman
Forums: r/Piracy, r/books, and r/technology
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts — In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting …
More: TipRanks Financial and Beebom
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Micron Q2: revenue up 38% YoY to $8.05B, vs. $7.89B est., net income up 100% to $1.58B, data center revenue up 200%, and offers better-than-expected Q3 guidance — Micron shares popped 6% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates …
More: Micron Technology, Kiplinger, Blocks and Files, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Tech Monitor, and Yahoo Finance
| Gary Rivlin / Bloomberg: |
A book excerpt from AI Valley details the 2024 mass defection of staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving but faced scaling challenges, to Microsoft — An excerpt from AI Valley tells the story of why the staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving, defected en masse to Microsoft in 2024.
More: Spyglass
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
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