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Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China
and Uber might help Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Uber in Talks With Kalanick to Fund Pony.AI Bid, NYT Says Mike Isaac / The Straits Times : Uber in talks with founder to help buy US unit of China's self...
OpenAI says board member Fidji Simo will lead its business and operations teams in her new role as CEO of Applications, overseeing sales, marketing, and finance
Mike Isaac / New York Times : X: @mikeisaac X: Rat King / @mikeisaac : ceo of Instacart leaves to become sub-ceo of OpenAI under Altman not sure what “applications” entails (sam please elaborate if y...
FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook
meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook — Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all of this happened in S...
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences
Here's How to See Posts From Your Friends Instead of Algorithms Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes ‘throwback to OG Facebook’ Emma Crabtree / The Sun : Facebook a...
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings
an early Web3 fashion success story — is folding Jason Newey / NFT News Today : Nike-Owned RTFKT to Shut Down Operations by January 2025 Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Nike-owned NFT wearables RTFK...
Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky
For You, following, or a custom one — as your default. Also making this more visible in the app. Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. Threads will finall...
Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”
It was a useful program, and the archival has merit, but publishers argued that the Archive overstepped, and the courts eventually agreed. Threads: @katienotopoulos , @cotyrosenblath , @jenvalentino_n...
Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong
Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses.Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023
Meta Platforms (META Quick Quote META - Free Report) … Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal : Facebook Parent Meta Initiates Dividend as Growth Continues Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Mark Zuckerberg s...