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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
On Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg said the Biden administration pushed Meta “super hard” to take down vaccine content, called EU fines a tariff on the US, more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Zuckerberg slams Apple, saying it hasn't “really invented anything great in a while”, he's “optimistic” that Apple will “get beat by someone” soon, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the Joe Rogan Experience podcast today for a wide-ranging interview …
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| Angrej Singh / Axios: |
Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was “something out of 1984” and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election — - Zuckerberg told Rogan, who was a prominent sceptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, that the Biden administration would … | New York Times: |
Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet — After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021 — When Roy Austin was hired to run a new civil rights team in 2021, the company called it “an incredibly important role for Facebook and for the tech industry.”
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives — Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …
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| Axios: |
Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US — - The moves come just three days after Meta ended many of its efforts to fact-check and police speech on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple opposes a shareholder measure calling for an end to DEI efforts, saying the proposal was an inappropriate attempt to restrict Apple's business operations — Apple Inc. disclosed a 18% pay increase for Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook ahead of its annual meeting next month …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured — On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down.| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and, a source says, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are planning to attend Trump's inauguration events this month — - Tech companies, executives donated to Trump's inaugural fund — Industry trying to boost relationship with new administration
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS signals it is likely to uphold the TikTok divest-or-ban law, as a majority of justices suggested they see national security overriding free speech issues — - Roberts points to parent company's close ties to China — Law would ban TikTok on Jan. 19 if ByteDance doesn't sell
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Forums: r/technology, r/JordanPeterson, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/NewsWithJingjing, and r/theworldnews
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Sources: H1 2025 iPhone shipments to decline ~6%, annual shipments to remain flat at around 220M to 225M units; ultra-thin iPhone's thinnest part will be ~5.5mm — My latest industry research indicates that Apple will encounter more challenging hurdles in 2025, including nearly stagnant iPhone growth …
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| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and other companies are collectively paying hundreds of content creators for access to their unpublished videos to train AI models — - YouTube, Instagram, TikTok creators licensing video footage — OpenAI, Google paying thousands for content to train AI models
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| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
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