Reuters:
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into about 2.6M Tesla vehicles after reports of crashes linked to its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
TikTok’s sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations (Axios)
Axios:
TikTok’s sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations — – ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok they won’t pay attention to its other apps.
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn’t cover deepfakes (Catarina Demony/Reuters)
Catarina Demony / Reuters:
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn’t cover deepfakes — Creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakes” will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said on Tuesday …
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time — Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is introducing what might be its most controversial “project” yet — an …
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for AMAs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for AMAs — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reddit unveiled new trends tools aimed at businesses and a new ad format for its Ask Me Anything (AMA) Q&A sessions.
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” (New York Times)
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” — The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers — Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV agreed to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625 million in cash to build …
Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression” and “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” (Fox News)
Fox News:
Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression” and “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” — FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” …
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)
Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business (Michael Flaherty/Axios)
Michael Flaherty / Axios:
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business — – Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock’s outstanding shares) …
