Journals

Jenny Crawford / Pex: Analysis: in 2023, 85% of videos on TikTok contained music, up from 69% in 2019; 84% of videos on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook contained music  —  TikTok, the pandemic’s golden child that… Read More »Analysis: in 2023, 85% of videos on TikTok contained music, up from 69% in 2019; 84% of videos on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook contained music (Jenny Crawford/Pex)

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: How chiplet tech could allow Chinese companies to circumvent US sanctions, as the Chinese government and VCs focus on propping up the domestic chiplet industry  —  By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese… Read More »How chiplet tech could allow Chinese companies to circumvent US sanctions, as the Chinese government and VCs focus on propping up the domestic chiplet industry (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Gemini on Android is more useful than regular Assistant thanks to Google services integration, but it’s not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating  —  I don’t know how to say this,… Read More »Gemini on Android is more useful than regular Assistant thanks to Google services integration, but it’s not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Nicolás Rivero / Washington Post: Bollegraaf, the world’s biggest builder of recycling plants, partners with AI startup Greyparrot to retrofit thousands of plants with AI tools for sorting waste  —  The world’s biggest builder of recycling plants says it will… Read More »Bollegraaf, the world’s biggest builder of recycling plants, partners with AI startup Greyparrot to retrofit thousands of plants with AI tools for sorting waste (Nicolás Rivero/Washington Post)

Pranav Dixit / Engadget: Arc Search’s Browse for Me feature, which makes a custom web page with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about web traffic and ad revenue  —  Arc browser’s new feature summarizes search results, cheating… Read More »Arc Search’s Browse for Me feature, which makes a custom web page with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about web traffic and ad revenue (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: A federal judge dismisses a case in which an imprisoned Saudi dissident and his sister, who is a US citizen, accused X of conspiring with the Saudi government  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge… Read More »A federal judge dismisses a case in which an imprisoned Saudi dissident and his sister, who is a US citizen, accused X of conspiring with the Saudi government (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Financial Times: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 has “divested from all its investments in China” as it seeks to reassure the US; sources: the sell-off included shares in ByteDance  —  State-backed group ends its investments in companies including ByteDance amid… Read More »Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 has “divested from all its investments in China” as it seeks to reassure the US; sources: the sell-off included shares in ByteDance (Financial Times)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Notion acquires Skiff, a startup offering end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar events, and email that had raised $14.2M  —  Notion launched its new calendar based on Cron last month, but its productivity suit can soon… Read More »Notion acquires Skiff, a startup offering end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar events, and email that had raised $14.2M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Elon Musk switches the location of Neuralink’s incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, after a Delaware judge struck down Musk’s $55B Tesla pay package last week  —  – Billionaire has fraught history with Delaware legal system  —… Read More »Elon Musk switches the location of Neuralink’s incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, after a Delaware judge struck down Musk’s $55B Tesla pay package last week (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Alexander Martin / The Record: France’s privacy regulator says data on 33M+ people, about half the nation’s population, was compromised in a cyberattack on two health insurance firms in Jan.  —  Data on more than 33 million people in France,… Read More »France’s privacy regulator says data on 33M+ people, about half the nation’s population, was compromised in a cyberattack on two health insurance firms in Jan. (Alexander Martin/The Record)