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Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move. Read more âș
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Meta rolled out a number of changes to its âHateful Conductâ policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Metaâs sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to âhelp remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,â he wrote on Threads. âWeâre going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more âș
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more âș
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us. These two sections outlining speech (written or visual)... Read more âș
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more » Read more âș
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms. Read more âș
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"We need Greenland for national security purposes," President-elect Trump said during a Tuesday press conference focused on the economy. Read more âș
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Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, becoming the world's third-largest gaming company. Read about the video game maker's history. Read more âș
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more âș
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At CES 2025, X CEO Linda Yaccarino shared her enthusiasm for Meta's adoption of "Community Notes," but it hasn't been so successful for X. Read more âș
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Curious to know what wild ideas Sony might be pondering for the future of gaming? Well, you're in luck: it's just unveiled new conceptual technology designed to ramp up immersion by sticking players inside a TV box and squirting smells into the room. So if you've ever wanted a whiff of Kratos after a hard day's slaying, your dreams are now one step closer to reality. Read more Read more âș
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The 100-year-old airline also announced partnerships with Uber and YouTube at CES 2025. Read more âș
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Despite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion. Read more âș
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The moves are part of a broader change in approach by Microsoft, which includes taking a harder look at low performers, sources told BI. Read more âș
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Former Annapurna Interactive staff - who departed the acclaimed video game publisher last September as part of a "mass exodus" - have reportedly established a new company and will be taking over indie label Private Division's portfolio, which was sold by Take-Two last year. Read more Read more âș
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Delta is launching new cabin-wide Bluetooth, improved inflight systems, and enhanced AI-powered customer experience tools in 2025 and 2026. Read more âș
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Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the way that Meta moderates its social media sites. Read more âș
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Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to enter new regions next year. And everything in the market is sure to intensify further as Tesla tries to begin mass-producing its own robotaxis in 2026. Existing ride-hailing services are in for a period of disruption. Uber is one of... Read more âș
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A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, killing the driver and injuring several bystanders, contained gasoline and other fuel canisters and large firework mortars, Las Vegas police said. The findings, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... Read more âș
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Benefits startup Level has told its clients that it is shutting down after an effort to sell the company fell through, marking another abrupt closure of a fintech that has left users in the lurch. Level, which was founded in 2018 and raised a $27 million Series A round in 2021 led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, told the companies offering its benefits plans that they would need... Read more âș
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Databricks and Snowflake, already embroiled in a fierce rivalry over software that manages companiesâ data, are now jockeying for position in generative artificial intelligenceâparticularly AI that helps businesses search their own data. Those goals have led both companies to consider buying the same startups. In recent weeks, representatives from Databricks and Snowflake have talked to the leaders of Voyage AI, a year-old startup both companies backed, about a potential acquisition,... Read more âș
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At the moment, TikTok is fighting for survival. The Chinese-owned app has been locked in a monthslong legal battle over a law that will ban it in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if it hasnât cut ties with its parent company, ByteDance. The entire drama is headed for a final showdown next week, with the company planning to argue for its existence in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. But... Read more âș
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Shares of Carvana fell 2% after a short-selling research firm, Hindenburg Research, published a report alleging that the publicly traded online car dealer has weak underwriting standards and an increasingly risky portfolio of subprime loans. The report focused on the role played by the ... Read more âș
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Specialized chip designers Broadcom and Marvell Technology have been getting a lot of investor love lately. Both companiesâ shares have surged more than 30% over the past three months as their revenues have soared, thanks to their efforts helping tech giants including Google and Amazon build their own artificial intelligence chips. Meanwhile, shares of the biggest AI chip designer, Nvidia, have stalled as its super-hot revenue growth has slowed. Right... Read more âș
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Morgan Stanleyâs online stock-trading arm, E-Trade, is exploring adding crypto trading in anticipation of a more favorable crypto regulatory environment under the incoming Donald Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the firmâs plans. If Morgan Stanley goes ahead with the launch, E-Trade would become one of the largest mainstream financial firms to offer crypto trading, pitting a traditional brokerage giant against Coinbase and other crypto exchanges. Read more âș
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Welcome to the first AI Agenda issue of 2025! Weâre expecting a lot in AI this year, given an impressive reasoning model from OpenAI, a new administration and likely lots more multi-billion-dollar funding rounds on the way. Here are my predictions for whatâs coming: Read more âș
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As some advertisers start to pull back from buying ad space on TikTok, the Chinese-owned app is telling big ad buying firms how they could get out of ad agreements if the app is banned in the U.S. in January. TikTok said in an email to big ad buying firms that it would return any principal paymentsâdown payments on agenciesâ spending commitments for TikTok adsâif the app loses its bid... Read more âș
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