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In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
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Threads: @carnage4life. X: @safety, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @thierrybreton, @globalaffairs, @thierrybreton, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @isabelle_szcz, @marinamedvin, @pinboard, @pinboard, @prestonjbyrne, @erinkwoo, @anneapplebaum, @jason_kint, @guyverhofstadt, @jason_kint, and @zsk
Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU launched a probe into X over hosting misinformation in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israel; X could be fined up to 5% of its daily global turnover — Investigation is the first under the bloc's Digital Services Act and comes after letter to Musk raising concerns
More: Bloomberg, USA Today, Reuters, BBC, NPR, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Fortune, Silicon UK, Tech Xplore, Politico, Daily Mail, Social Media Today, Yahoo Finance, WION, Washington Examiner, TechCrunch, and Deadline. Bluesky: @jimbochill.bsky.social
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Threads rolls out voice posts and a free edit button; users can edit a post within five minutes of sending it, and Threads doesn't show an edit history — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now rolling out one of its most-requested features - an edit button.
More: The Verge, Engadget, Social Media Today, Android Headlines, and BGR
Threads: @zuck, @crumbler, @tomwarrenuk, @carnage4life, @mattnavarra, @alexheath, @hawaii, and @drey_hommies
Mastodon: @TruthSandwich@qoto.org and @tchambers@indieweb.social
X: @tomwarren and @artemr
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Livemint, Hindustan Times, and Neowin
Threads: @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @renee.diresta, @guillecummings, @mattdpearce, @mattdpearce, @keithedwards, @laurengoode, @reckless1280, @bashowicks, @om, @taylorlorenz, @jasonrosenbaum, @myhlee, @frankafusco, @luckytran, @drewharwell, @lucaspuskaric, @yayitsrob, and @mosseri. X: @jason_kint
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search Generative Experience adds the ability to generate images using prompts and to write drafts by customizing their tone and length — Google's AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today.| New York Times: |
At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder's criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Daily Hodl, CoinDesk, CNBC, CoinGape, Rolling Stone, Crypto Daily, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, CryptoGlobe, Unchained Crypto, Bitcoinist.com, Inside Bitcoins, The Verge, Decrypt, New York Times, and Insider
X: @silvermanjacob, @blknoiz06, @coindesk, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @teddyschleifer, @coffeebreak_yt, @tomimtk, @trustlessstate, @zackdabrams, @soncharm, @innercitypress, @hedgedhog7, @basedkarbon, @innercitypress, @zackdabrams, @scottmelker, @smtuffy, @innercitypress, @molly0xfff, @lulumeservey, @smtuffy, @thecryptojourno, @molly0xfff, and @adam3us
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024 — Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
More: Work Life, Crunchbase News, Atlassian, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Constellation Research, and MarketWatch
X: @asanwal, @devahaz, @gregisenberg, @andrew__reed, @vhmth, @buccocapital, @rahul_j_mathur, @gergelyorosz, @vhmth, @vhmth, @_shahedk, @atlassian, and @andrew__reed
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
CFTC charges Voyager Digital co-founder Stephen Ehrlich with fraud, saying he and Voyager lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health — - Stephen Ehrlich and the firm the co-founded, Voyager Digital, lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health, according to the CFTC.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023 — Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
More: Elliptic, CoinDesk, BBC, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Elliptic Connect, Washington Post, Cryptopolitan, The Block, and CoinGape
X: @joetidy and @a_greenberg
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is generating $1.3B in revenue per year, implying the company is now generating $100M+/month, up 30% in three months — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year, CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
More: The Messenger. Threads: @crumbler. X: @jessicalessin, @steph_palazzolo, @mattmday, @amir, and @binarybits
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — - Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from investment bank Piper Sandler.
More: Hindustan Times, Piper Sandler, TechSpot, TechStartups, and The Streamable
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon's 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
More: WordPress.com News, The Verge, and BGR
Threads: @chrispirillo. Mastodon: @dilmandila@mograph.social, @clintlalonde@mastodon …, @randomwizard@social …, @anildash@me.dm, @mergesort@macaw.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @seo_theory. Forums: Hacker News
| Noema: |
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC — Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf. X: @shanelegg, @blaiseaguera, @stefanfschubert, @noemamag, @melmitchell1, and @garymarcus
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Beehaw
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Over 220 VC firms, including Bessemer and GGV, sign a statement in support of Israel and call for the investor community to support Israel's tech ecosystem — The open letter published on Thursday is the latest effort by startup investors to provide support for the state of Israel and its tech community, with 221 firms signed on.
X: @michelledonelan, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @avidvc, @lily_toto, @vc, @alexrkonrad, @cowboyvc, @brianlaungaoaeh, and @elisha__jacobs. LinkedIn: Julia Gudish Krieger
| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Filing: Sam Altman is the largest investor in Humane, which plans to unveil its AI Pin next month, with a 14.93% equity; Humane's two co-founders own 13% each — Sam Altman is Humane's biggest shareholder — Secretive AI hardware startup Humane is getting ready to officially unveil its AI Pin next month … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … | Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to unveil major developer updates on November 6, like memory storage in its tools and vision capabilities to analyze and describe images — OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based …
More: PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, The Information, BigTechWire, The Messenger, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Coinbase's quarterly spot trading volume fell 52% YoY to $76B in Q3, likely the lowest volume since Coinbase's direct listing on Nasdaq in April 2021 — - Transaction revenue accounts for about half of total revenue — Quarterly spot trading volume fell to $76 billion, CCData says| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Surface Laptop Go 3 review: light, compact, and a premium design, but a low-resolution screen, the keyboard isn't backlit, few ports, and too expensive at $800+ — The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
Forums: r/Surface
| Bloomberg: |
How Google Chrome's Discover feed serves propaganda to Russian Android users; source: services in Russian are a lower priority after Google left Russia in 2022 — Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.| Bloomberg: |
As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, his own deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from such a deal could be years away — - Wall Street waiting for Gelsinger to name major foundry client — Record-setting factory build-out hinges on lining up customers| Karen Hao / The Atlantic: |
Sources: the US Department of Commerce is considering new export controls for general-purpose AI programs, a move that experts say could weaken US AI innovation — For decades, the Department of Commerce has maintained a little-known list of technologies that, on grounds of national security …
X: @_karenhao, @dlberes, @bobehayes, @ainowinstitute, @theatlantic, and @ambaonadventure
LinkedIn: Christos Makridis, Marc Rotenberg, and Marc Rotenberg
| Reuters: |
Filing: India accuses 30+ Vivo staff of visa violations and says the company siphoned ~$13B to its Chinese parent company via a “masking layer” to evade taxes — Many employees of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo and its Indian affiliates concealed their employment when seeking visas …
More: Business Today, Inc42 Media, Trak.in, Pocket Gamer.biz, TechNode, CNN, and DigiTimes
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