Sources: the US has paused its Tech Prosperity Deal with the UK, signed in September, over frustrations about UK online safety rules and digital services taxes
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain's digital regulations and food safety rules.
OpenAI completes its recapitalization, “simplifying” its structure; OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B and still controls the OpenAI for-profit
OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure. The nonprofit remains in control …
As TSMC shifts production out of Taiwan, a look the domestic chip industry's increasingly fraught complaints of land, water, energy, labor, and talent shortages
Sarah Wu / Reuters : X: @mgerrydoyle , @sarah_wu_ , and @reuters X: Gerry Doyle / @mgerrydoyle : taiwan, about the same size as belgium (or maryland) has a bit of a space crunch.....
Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers
System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, Mexico, Ghana, Australia, and India
- Twitter is leaving at least a dozen international offices due to closures or not paying rent. — Hubs in Europe and even Twitter's headquarters in Asia are shuttered.
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees
After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue
Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …
Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired
Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... h...
Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps, bookended with beauty tips, goes viral with 1.4M+ views and ~500,000 likes, as copycats get millions more
A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …