DM spam on here is more out of control than ever

A lot of stories this week about the TikTok ban note that it would be hard to detach the app from its valuable algorithm. Thanks, strangely enough, to the Europeans, that's not actually true.

A look at TikTok's options as it readies a legal challenge to the US gov:…

fyi to AI startups

Threads now has 150 million monthly users, @zuck says on Meta earnings call today. That’s up from almost 100 million users in October. How bout them daily users tho? theverge.com/2024/4/24/2413…

Google has now fired 50 employees it said were involved in protesting in offices. @Verge Deputy Editor Alex Heath and Yale University's Joanne Lipman discuss the state of culture in the workplace:

Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk trib.al/C1m0tZd

By now licensing its Horizon OS to Lenovo, Asus, and others, Meta wants to be for headsets what Microsoft was for PCs. An interesting move with Apple now in the space. History repeats itself. theverge.com/2024/4/22/2413…

Big Technology Friday Pod: Meta's Llama 3 launch, Google's culture shift, and MKBHD vs. Humane w/ Alex Heath podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big…

I asked Mark Zuckerberg about how Meta got Google search results into its AI assistant theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

another Twitter/X rival bites the dust post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PY…

'I think the really shocking thing was seeing 28 employees fired here. I've been covering tech for a long time, you see these selective firings, but you don't see something that's like 28... that was to send a message,' says Alex Heath on Google firing employees for protesting.

hell hath frozen?

The first rule of AI club is not disclosing how you trained the AI: “Meta gets hand-wavy when I ask for specifics on the data used for training Llama 3.” Alex Heath theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…