US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on October 30 in South Korea, confirming a final US-China deal on the sale
with Trump and Xi set to ‘consummate’ agreement Claudia Aoraha / Daily Mail : Trump and China reach groundbreaking TikTok deal after years-long battle over the app X: Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🇺🇸🇨...
Sources: OpenAI has agreed to rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling ~4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative
OpenAI is dead man walking then, Microsoft owns all the IP, and it burns $60+b in competitor venture capital. … @onefeincat : Enough power to send 3.71 Martys McFly back to 1985, and they're using it ...
Ripple applies for a US national banking license, which would place its RLUSD stablecoin under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's regulatory remit
More accurately, most are seeking trust bank charters that have some of the *benefits* of being a bank but without all the *restrictions* that apply to traditional banks that take deposits and make lo...
France says the EU's second response to President Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, like those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft
the tech giants Bloomberg : EU Begins US Tariff Talks While Accepting End of Old World Order Nellius Irene / Cryptopolitan : Trump's tariff policy wipes over $1 trillion from the magnificent 7's marke...
NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek's chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate
Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ deepseek-d... X: @newsguardrating : In DeepSeek's first appearance in NewsGuard's red-team audit of AI tools, the Chinese AI chatbot...
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025
The company, which owes €267M in unpaid social security contributions, says it will hire delivery drivers directly. apnews.com/article/spai... X: Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🇪🇸SPANIARDS BRACE FOR “G...
At an Acquired podcast event, Mark Zuckerberg said his biggest career mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Parker Thompson / @parkert : Not understanding that they were the refs getting worked by bad-faith actors has definitely always been a massive problem for Meta and othe...
Users in Russia report outages affecting Telegram, WhatsApp, and other services; Roskomnadzor blames a DDoS attack, while activists suspect Kremlin interference
Downdetector Brace yourself, the 'It's working fine for me' messages are pending... [image] Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🚨🇷🇺 ‘LARGE-SCALE’ OUTAGES HIT TELEGRAM, WHATSAPP IN RUSSIA Reports indicate th...
Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December
Apple can go to hell — [images] @macstories@mastodon.macstories.net : The Epic Cost of Tim Sweeney's App Store Disputes with Apple and Google https://www.macstories.net/... Steve Troughton-Smith / @...