Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions, and it's unclear how many times the deadline can be extended
Again NZ Herald : Trump gives TikTok 90 more days to find buyer, again delayed ban Joe DePaolo / Mediaite : ‘Brazenly Illegal’: Conservatives Lash Out at Trump for Executive Order Sidestepping TikTok ...
Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid for TikTok US, after being approached along with Blackstone and other large asset managers
the ban push started to help Facebook kill a competitor it couldn't out-innovate. now it's morphed into helping the GOP convert another online community into a right wing safe space Mastodon: Jeff Jar...
A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts
9 best prompts to try now SWAMY WORLD : Meet Udio, the other ChatGPT for music Ashley King / Digital Music News : AI Music Startup Udio Bags $10 Million Investment— will.i.am, Common, Google & Instagr...
A Stability AI co-founder sues the startup over being duped into selling his 15% stake for $100 to CEO Emad Mostaque months before Stability hit a $1B valuation
Now he's getting sued by a cofounder for tricking them into selling a 15% stack now worth $150 million for $100. — That is some Charles Dickens novel level of villainy — https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jeff Jordan, a16z's fifth general partner who joined in 2011, steps back from active investments but will continue to work on his portfolio and board positions
I was well into my career when I discovered the magical world of technology start-ups. Troy Wolverton / San Francisco Business Journal : The Funded: A16z's Jeff Jordan, who led investments in companie...
Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a ~40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the platform
Quoting @Techmeme: #retoot https://techhub.social/... Tweets: Scott Nover / @scottnover : Surprised it's all that little. https://twitter.com/... @zefede : Looking into this. https://twitter.com/... A...
Analysis: despite claiming to reject gun ads, Google accepted ads from the 15 top US firearms sellers between March 9 and June 6, generating 120M+ impressions
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Analysis: despite claiming to reject gun ads, Google accepted ads from 15 top US firearms sellers between March 9 and June 6, generating over 120M impressions
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Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts”
Lots of audio platform-related news over the past week. Shruti Shekar / Android Central : Spotify's ‘misinformation honeymoon’ is over, the whip has been cracked Tweets: Joe Rogan / @joerogan : My tho...
Israel reduces the countries approved for export of cyber tools from 102 to 37, most of which are in the West, after the US sanctioned NSO Group and Candiru
which was also accused of using NSO technology on journalists, opposition politicians, and activists — remains on the updated list. https://twitter.com/... Chris Fralic / @chrisfralic : “Pegasus is co...