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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom fee...

5 days ago 8

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated "scambaiter" tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time (Jibin Joseph/PCMag)

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, ...

5 days ago 6

X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at cur...

5 days ago 5

Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+ (Financial Times)

Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almos...

6 days ago 4

Ant Group's profit grew ~193% YoY in the June quarter to $1.05B, reversing a year-long decline as it regains its footing from the Chinese government crackdown (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Ant Group's profit grew ~193% YoY in the June quar...

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Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$32.4B, below ~$32.7B est., and net income up 58% YoY to ~$6.07B due to the performance of its equity investments (Ruxandra Iordache/CNBC)

Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$32.4B, b...

6 days ago 5

A profile of Klarna and its CEO Sebastian Siemiatk...

6 days ago 8

Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to TSMC; money will be disbursed in stages and TSMC is expected to receive at least $1B by the end of 2024 (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)

Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to...

6 days ago 4

Filing: Samsung plans to buy back about $7.2B of its own stock in stages over the next year, in one of the larger shareholder return programs in its history (Bloomberg)

Filing: Samsung plans to buy back about $7.2B of i...

6 days ago 6

How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model (Will Knight/Wired)

How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots...

6 days ago 8

Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an effort to buy Grubhub for $1B+ around the start of 2024 and in 2022; Wonder bought Grubhub for $650M on Nov. 13 (Financial Times)

Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an eff...

6 days ago 4

Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry (Decrypt)

Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC a...

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The US DOJ says Cruise admits to submitting a false report to influence an investigation into an October 2023 crash with a pedestrian and will pay a $500K fine (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The US DOJ says Cruise admits to submitting a fals...

6 days ago 6

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names ...

6 days ago 5

NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that can answer questions about the Earth using NASA's geospatial information (Emma Roth/The Verge)

NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copil...

6 days ago 5

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let wor...

6 days ago 5

Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding...

6 days ago 4

TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (Emma Roth/The Verge)

TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Cre...

6 days ago 4