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Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Myth...

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How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X (New York Times)

How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during ...

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A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it insists in a letter that Silverbear is on the hook to invest $200M; Source: Bolt lost $310M on $27M 2023 revenue (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it ins...

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In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alleges that the CEO of the smartphone startup misused funds to pay for his racing hobby and lavish lifestyle (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alle...

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Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users (New York Times)

Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X ...

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Coatue founder Philippe Laffont has left the board of ByteDance following a report that Coatue was considering selling a portion of its ByteDance stake (The Information)

Coatue founder Philippe Laffont has left the board...

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A profile of Alexandre de Moraes as even some supp...

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X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust "hostage laws," but Elon Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's demands (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust "hostage...

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A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a "strategic text sequence" to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI cha...

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How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubator for cybersecurity startups, with its alumni starting Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and other companies (Wall Street Journal)

How the Israeli army's Unit 8200 became an incubat...

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It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data (Ed Newton-Rex/Music Business Worldwide)

It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal ...

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Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230 (Matt Stoller/BIG)

Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 pr...

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Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot make...

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A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies a motion to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing Media Matters of misrepresenting the amount of extremist content on X (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

A Texas federal judge who held Tesla stock denies ...

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An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering AI Overviews for 17% of queries in the UK and US, but rarely for searches about current events (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)

An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offe...

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Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day (New York Times)

Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent...

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's "growing quickly" even without a rollout "in UK, Brazil, or EU yet" (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly ...

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Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country (Associated Press)

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Morae...

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