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
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 …
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”
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 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 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 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.
Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims (Adam James/The Block)
Adam James / The Block:
Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims — – FTX EU has been acquired by Backpack Exchange following regulatory and legal approval. — Backpack EU will take responsibility …
