ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
Here's all you need to knowAnkita Chakravarti /Moneycontrol:TikTok avoids US ban after sealing last-minute dealJoy Chakravarty /Arabian Business:Abu Dhabi's MGX buys 15% stake to k...
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
Here's all you need to knowAnkita Chakravarti /Moneycontrol:TikTok avoids US ban after sealing last-minute dealJoy Chakravarty /Arabian Business:Abu Dhabi's MGX buys 15% stake to k...
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program
The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever “deeply regret[s]” participating “in the board's actions” and says he “never intended to harm OpenAI” and wants to “reunite the company”
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the compa...
Sources: GroupM clients cut Twitter ad spend by 40%-50% since Elon Musk took over; Standard Media Index is seeing fewer January and February ad bookings in 2023
Sahil Patel / The Information : See also Mediagazer
Sources: in December, Twitter started considering auctioning off usernames to generate revenue; Elon Musk had said he wants to free up 1.5B inactive usernames
The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Elon Musk is buying Twitter to protect his ability to tweet, which is vital to his business interests, combatting the SEC, and because Tesla's stock stalled out
kinda the other side of @ranjanxroy's argument today https://www.readmargins.com/ ... @hongpong : someone should make an animation showing how a 40% drop in Tesla stock would trigg...
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
YouTube defends choice to leave up election misinformation videos, saying such videos are “not being surfaced or recommended in any prominent way”
Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement
From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him
The debate over TikTok is a chance to come up with a thoughtful model to regulate big tech companies, whether they're based in China, Copenhagen, or California
black-box algorithm, opaque moderation, unclear data custody — are issues with Facebook, YouTube, etc. as well. @hunterwalk : @alexstamos ""This is a chance to come up with a thoug...
TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete
Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor. Tweets: @readmargins , @mdudas , @adamconner , @adamconner , @hk...
TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete
Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor. Tweets: @readmargins , @mdudas , @adamconner , @adamconner , @hk...
[Thread] Former Pinterest public policy exec Ifeoma Ozoma shares stories of her time at the company that call into question its declared solidarity with BLM
Ifeoma Ozoma / @ifeomaozoma :