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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Some teens say a Snapchat+ feature that lets users see their position in their friends’ digital orbits, rendered as a solar system, is adding to their anxieties  —  Drama, hurt feelings and heartbreak can… Read More »Some teens say a Snapchat+ feature that lets users see their position in their friends’ digital orbits, rendered as a solar system, is adding to their anxieties (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix tops $100B in valuation as its stock rose 2x+ over the past year amid high-bandwidth memory demand; analysts: SK Hynix has 90%+ share of the latest HBM  —  – Key Nvidia supplier’s shares have… Read More »SK Hynix tops $100B in valuation as its stock rose 2x+ over the past year amid high-bandwidth memory demand; analysts: SK Hynix has 90%+ share of the latest HBM (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: A look at the autonomous truck industry’s challenges, including a lack of federal regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan a major expansion in Texas this year  —  Autonomous truck companies plan a major expansion this… Read More »A look at the autonomous truck industry’s challenges, including a lack of federal regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan a major expansion in Texas this year (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)

Wall Street Journal: Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023  —  Studios seek the wisdom of die-hard gaming fans.  ‘Every… Read More »Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

Max Tani / Semafor: Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to be on its Podcast “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 podcasts last week were participants  —  To get their show featured at the top of the… Read More »Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to be on its Podcast “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 podcasts last week were participants (Max Tani/Semafor)

Katie Hafner / New York Times: Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82  —  After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw… Read More »Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82 (Katie Hafner/New York Times)

Heather Knight / New York Times: A profile of YC’s Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism  —  The tech investor Garry Tan has courted San… Read More »A profile of YC’s Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism (Heather Knight/New York Times)

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023  —  British AI pioneer says the billions… Read More »Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023 (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Dell, HP, and other US tech firms have asked their Taiwanese suppliers to boost production of AI-related hardware in Mexico to reduce reliance on China  —  Taiwan-based contract manufacturers step up investment south of the U.S.… Read More »Sources: Dell, HP, and other US tech firms have asked their Taiwanese suppliers to boost production of AI-related hardware in Mexico to reduce reliance on China (Wall Street Journal)

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: MrBeast’s “retention editing”, which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos  —  The popularity of so-called retention editing made a… Read More »MrBeast’s “retention editing”, which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)