Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway’s AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks’ automated moderation — People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look like they came from one of the animated Minions movies …
CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will resign on January 20; on his watch the CFTC deepened scrutiny of crypto and event contracts, like those allowing bets on elections (Stefania Palma/Financial Times)
Stefania Palma / Financial Times:
CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will resign on January 20; on his watch the CFTC deepened scrutiny of crypto and event contracts, like those allowing bets on elections — CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will step down on day of president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration
For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously — Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta’s “sensitive content” policy which restricts “sexually suggestive content”
Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks — Imagine you’re asking a computer-using agent from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to find and order a new outfit for your upcoming holiday party …
Meta is dropping fact-checking after incoming FCC head Brendan Carr threatened it over such practices, undercutting the notion that Meta’s move was principled (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta is dropping fact-checking after incoming FCC head Brendan Carr threatened it over such practices, undercutting the notion that Meta’s move was principled — I have to commend Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new policy chief Joel Kaplan on their timing.
Screenshots: several employees’ posts critical of Meta’s new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta’s ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees’ posts critical of Meta’s new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta’s ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally — “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849 (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849 — Lenovo is trying to streamline what a Windows laptop can look like in terms of screen real estate. One way that the company is doing …
Trump announces a $20B investment in US data centers, saying the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties (Reuters)
Reuters:
Trump announces a $20B investment in US data centers, saying the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United States.
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen’s detachable gamepads (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen’s detachable gamepads — Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499 — With a notebook PC with a screen that rolls, a monitor with directional audio, and the first third-party SteamOS gaming handheld, Lenovo is hitting CES 2025 hard.
