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Larry Ellison just called off his $7.5 billion Oracle stock sale
Fifty million shares. Roughly $7.5 billion. Gone from the calendar, with no explanation attached. Oracle said on Saturday that co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison has canceled a…
Meta’s new teen rules for Instagram and Facebook, and the 2-hour cap
Two hours. That’s the daily ceiling Meta has agreed to put on teen accounts across Facebook and Instagram in the US, and it’s the part of this settlement…
They Gave Their Careers to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Arrived
Luis DeSantiago found out he’d been turned into a deepfake while pouring coffee. It was March 12. The substitute teacher from Los Banos, California was working his other…
TikTok pays $400 million to end the DOJ’s child privacy case
Four hundred million dollars is what it costs to make a children’s privacy lawsuit go away when you're TikTok. The Department of Justice announced Friday that the company…
TikTok’s app code hides peer-to-peer payments inside DMs
Buried in the current build of TikTok’s U.S. iPhone app is code for something the company won’t confirm it’s building: a way to send money to another person…
YouTube is rewriting how it counts views, and your numbers are about to jump
Starting August 24th, a YouTube view will register the moment a video starts playing. Not 30 seconds in. The instant it plays. That’s the whole change, and it’s…
Bytedance is training China’s largest AI model yet
Up to 10 trillion parameters. That’s the size of the model Bytedance has in pretraining right now, according to the Financial Times, and it would make the TikTok…
