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    Carl Pei: “This year will mark the launch of our flagship Nothing Phone (3).”

    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?

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    Tim Sweeney weighs in on recent political moves from Big Tech leaders.

    “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.

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    “LFG (Looking for gamers).”

    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.

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    YouTubers are making money off their unused footage by selling it to AI companies.

    They’re “oftentimes netting thousands of dollars per deal,” Bloomberg reports. OpenAI and Google are apparently among the companies paying for the video footage.

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    Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg plan to be at Trump’s inauguration.

    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.

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    Joe Rogan has some feelings about Apple’s App Store policies.

    “There’s so much of what Apple does that I don’t like and one of the big ones is the way they do that Apple store — where they charge people 30 percent,” Rogan said in his interview with Mark Zuckerberg published today. “That seems so insane that they can get away with doing that.”

    We’ll have more coverage from the interview coming soon.

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    Mark Zuckerberg is on Joe Rogan’s podcast to close out the week.
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    TikTok has written to creators about tomorrow’s Supreme Court hearing.

    “While we do not have specific on when the court will make its ruling, you can be assured that we will be transparent on the next steps as soon as we have a decision,” writes TikTok’s Kim Farrell, according to a screenshot of a message shared by Andru Edwards.