Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an "error" that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
Dylan Butts / CNBC: Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in
Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds
ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of "suspicious outflows"; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet
Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says
Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Argentina’s president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap
Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump's first term and informed Tesla of inaccurate safety claims (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters: Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump’s first term and informed Tesla
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs
Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing anti-US rhetoric in China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing
OpenAI's Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and likely economically valuable work (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: OpenAI’s Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and
Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation
