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The Quest 3S has its flaws, but it’s a great first VR headset.
“Under one scenario that’s been discussed by the Chinese government, Musk’s X — the former Twitter — would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together, the people said,” Bloomberg reports.
TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes tells The Verge that “we can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction.”
Per The Wall Street Journal, in an article about Zuckerberg’s “MAGA makeover”:
On Friday, Zuckerberg met with Trump in Florida for the second time in seven weeks and torched Meta’s longstanding diversity policies. The CEO was at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in part to mediate a lawsuit Trump brought against Facebook and Zuckerberg in 2021 over the platform’s suspension of Trump’s account after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the options for resolution is a monetary settlement.
That’s from what appears to be an email from Nothing CEO Carl Pei to the Nothing team. Leaker Evan Blass shared a screenshot of the email to his private account on X, which Android Authority posted.
Pei also says that in Q1, “we have a landmark smartphone launch” — I’m guessing that’s the Phone 3?
[Android Authority]
“After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration,” he says in a post on X. “Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors.”
I’m guessing this is partially about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent actions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) CFPB is requesting comment on a new proposal to “clarify what rights are available to consumers, including gamers, under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act,” according to a blog post.
Wired has a great summary of what it all might mean.
They’re “oftentimes netting thousands of dollars per deal,” Bloomberg reports. OpenAI and Google are apparently among the companies paying for the video footage.
Altman donated personally to Trump’s inauguration committee, and Meta as a company donated to the committee. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi also plans to be at “some of the surrounding festivities,” Bloomberg reports.
