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Elon Musk Claims ‘Superior Ownership’ Over Alex Jones, Infowars X Accounts as The Onion Pursues Acquisition
An objection filing in bankruptcy court Monday attempts to block the parody news site from running Jones and InfoWars’ accounts
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How Prime Video Is Capitalizing on AI to Drive Engagement | Exclusive
“Everything we do around content, discovery and personalization is AI-driven and that’s the core of our service,” the streamer’s product VP Adam Gray tells TheWrap
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Universities Are Woefully Under-Resourced For AI Research. They’re Fighting To Change That. | Commentary
Stanford University has 300 GPUs. Microsoft will have 1.8 million. Here’s what’s needed to make academia relevant in AI research.
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Amazon Pours Another $4 Billion Into Anthropic AI
The new investment brings Amazon’s total stake to $8 billion, with Anthropic now using Amazon Web Services as its “primary training partner”
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Threads Newsfeed Will Prioritize Showing Accounts Users Follow Instead of Recommended Content
Instagram head Adam Mosseri tells creators that the change is a “work in progress”
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Rob Reiner Says ‘MAGA Scum’ Have Already Wrecked Bluesky
The director reveals he’s taking a break from social media after the X alternative quickly became “vile, racist and evil”
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Jeff Bezos Fires Back at Elon Musk’s Claim He Thought Trump Would Lose: ‘100% Not True’
Musk on Wednesday said the Amazon founder was “telling everyone” to sell their SpaceX and Tesla stock
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US Regulators Call for Google to Sell Off Chrome Browser
Google says the Department of Justice’s “radical” proposal would stifle its business and hurt consumers
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Elon Musk’s X Offsets Lost Users With 27% Spike in Post-Election Downloads
As users flee for rivals Bluesky and Threads, X has seen its base hold steady
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Netflix, Meta Sued Over Anticompetitive Streaming Agreement That Led to End of Facebook Watch
The suit argues that the deal between Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg “decreased consumer choices” while “at the same time increasing consumer costs”
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Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company, Andreesen Horowitz Invest in Generative AI Content Studio
Promise is founded by former YouTube exec Jamie Byrne, Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos and independent filmmaker Dave Clark
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Trump Media Eying Crypto Trading Platform Bakkt, Report Boosts Shares
The president-elect’s potential venture follows last month’s preview of his World Liberty Financial crypto coin
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Department of Justice to Compel Google to Sell Chrome, Bloomberg Reports
Google recently said selling off Chrome would “break” the popular web browser
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YouTube Is Bigger Than Spotify and Apple for Podcasts, Research Finds
31% of weekly podcast listeners in the U.S. turn to YouTube for their content, compared to 27% who look to Spotify, Edison Podcast Metrics reports
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Influencers Are Key News Source for 37% of Young People, Pew Survey Finds
Americans ages 18-29 are almost twice as likely as the average person to get their news from influencers