Monthly Archives: January 2025

Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos

It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok’s services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store. Bluesky said Sunday that it is launching a custom feed for vertical … Continue reading

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Melania Trump launches her own cryptocurrency

$Melania is announced a day after President-elect Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $Trump.

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TSMC is confident its CHIPS Act funding will continue under Trump, says CFO Wendell Huang

TSMC is confident it will continue to receive CHIPS Act funding in the U.S. under the incoming Donald Trump administration, says its Chief Financial Officer. 

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From recruiting for Palantir to landing a plane on Highway 85: meet defense tech’s wildest power broker

Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban

Some users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.

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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban

Instagram on Sunday rolled out Edits, a video-editing product that appeared similar to CapCut, which is owned by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.

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AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research … Continue reading

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The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as … Continue reading

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TikTok Is Already Back Online

Less than 24 hours after the app went dark, TikTok says President-elect Donald Trump has given it the reassurance it needs to resume service in the US.

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TikTok is restoring service in the US

Barely more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the United States, the video-sharing app is coming back online. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company said in a statement. … Continue reading

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