Sources: Meta is talking to crypto firms about introducing stablecoins for managing payouts, and in January 2025 hired a VP of product with crypto experience
Three Years After Diem Rony Roy / crypto.news : Meta may be eyeing stablecoin payments for Instagram creators Samuel Edyme / Bitcoinist.com : Stripe Expands Crypto Offerings With Stablecoin Accounts a...
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
www.ft.com/content/9038... @drdoofenschmirtz : Only 45 more months of this uncertainty, assuming we have elections in 2026 &. 2028. — Good job Wall Street!!! You got your guy Glenn Wright / @godle...
Meta plans to withhold future multimodal AI models in the EU due to what the company calls a lack of clarity from regulators, but keep offering text-only models
https://www.axios.com/... X: Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : From this: - Llama 4 started training in June - Llama 4 will be fully multimodal, including audio - Llama 3 405b will still release in the...
Billionaire tech critic Frank McCourt says he is preparing a “people's bid” to buy and rebuild TikTok so users “own and control their identity and their data”
The Scoop — A billionaire tech critic says he is mounting a bid to buy TikTok, the massive Chinese …
The Biden campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, with “enhanced security measures”, to help “meet voters where they are”
here's what happens next X: Allan Smith / @akarl_smith : Scoop from @albamonica: Biden's campaign says it plans to keep using TikTok through the election after the president signed legislation that co...
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, as the app's growth in Europe slows
https://www.theinformation.com/ ... X: Kaya Yurieff / @kyurieff : The app is already live in Japan and Korea. Japan showed that building a standalone app is “effective in stimulating growth.” The rewa...
Sources: after more than six months, the FBI has resumed limited outreach to some US tech companies about foreign propagandists using their platforms
NBC News : X: @ericgeller and @kevincollier X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : “Employees at two companies that had previously received the briefings said the agency had resumed limited outreach but that...
The White House plans to require that companies seeking CHIPS Act subsidies limit stock buybacks and share unanticipated profits with the federal government
Even Child Care Tweets: Dennis Crowley / @dens : This seems very smart / reasonable. Why haven't all subsidies (or bailouts?) had similar terms? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Sar...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs the Digital Fair Repair Act, set to take effect on July 1, 2023, with amendments giving OEMs some exceptions and loopholes
When Jeannie Crowley came up with the idea for a student-run repair center … Paul Roberts / Fight to Repair : NY Governor Bows To Big Tech, Signs Slimmed Down Right To Repair Act Rich Brome / Phone Sc...
The SEC sides with Amazon shareholders asking for a vote on greater tax disclosures, one of the first times the regulator has granted such a request
Emma Agyemang / Financial Times : Tweets: @muradahmed and @fairtaxmark Tweets: Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : Scoop in @FT from @EmmaAgyemang - Amazon investors who want the tech giant to provide greate...