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☆ Trump’s 2024 victory revealed voter shifts that could reshape America’s political landscape
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Here are five takeaways on the voters Trump won and what it means moving forward:The Latino realignmentA trend with the potential to remake the American political landscape is the huge shift in Latino voters toward Trump. Trump’s 1.5-point win in Osceola County flipped a location that President Joe Biden won by 14 points four years earlier. Trump’s performance similarly improved in Orange County, home of Orlando, where Biden won by 23 points in 2020 but Harris won by just 5.6 points this year. Trump’s gains are explained in part by his appeals to Black men, and his efforts to reach out to Arab American voters. Harris won by 10 points and 85,000 votes — short of the 14-point, 114,000-vote win Biden had notched there in 2020.

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Next door in the 7th District, GOP state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie defeated Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, who had flipped a GOP seat in a 2018 special election. Republicans also flipped an open seat in Michigan’s 7th District, after Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin decided to run for the Senate. Because California is notoriously slow in counting ballots, some of the half-dozen hyper-competitive races there — critical to which party wins the House majority — likely will take days. In the 27th District, GOP Rep. Mike Garcia was narrowly beating Democrat George Whitesides with 65% of the vote in. In another California battleground race, NBC News projected Wednesday that GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley has defeated Democrat Jessica Morse.

Persons: Donald Trump, Will Trump, that’s, Kamala Harris, Trump, Mike Johnson, ” Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, ” Jeffries, Ezra Levin, Brendan Boyle, it's, ”, ” Boyle, “ Trump, Harris, Brandon Williams, Marc Molinaro, Josh Riley, Rob Bresnahan, Matt Cartwright, Ryan Mackenzie, Susan Wild, Wild, Elissa Slotkin, Nick Begich, Mary Peltola, Juan Ciscomani, Kirsten Engel, David Schweikert, Don Bacon, John Duarte, Adam Gray, David Valadao, Rudy Salas, Mike Garcia, Democrat George Whitesides, Michelle Steel, Derek Tran, Ken Calvert, Will Rollins, Kevin Kiley, Jessica Morse Organizations: WASHINGTON, Republicans, White, Senate, Representatives, NBC News, House Republicans, “, Biden, Congressional, Democratic, ”, Democrats, GOP, Empire State, NBC, Republican, Democratic Rep, GOP Rep, Central Valley’s, Democrat, District, longtime GOP, Rep Locations: West Palm Beach , Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, D, Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, Arizona , Oregon, Iowa, Southern California, Greenland, Syracuse, Empire, Pennsylvania’s, District, Michigan’s 7th, Alaska’s, In Arizona, Nebraska, California

☆ Q3 Earnings: Welcome to the ‘show me the money’ quarter
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In what some analysts are calling the “show me the money” quarter, most of the major US tech titans will report earnings during Halloween week. “Tech companies have been spending billions on AI like kids in a candy store,” said David Laut, chief investment officer at Abound Financial. “Now investors want to see what they’re getting for their money.”Earnings season for tech got off to a strong start Wednesday evening when Tesla surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected earnings. The results sent Tesla’s shares surging more than 11% in after-hours trading, potentially setting a positive tone for next week’s parade of tech earnings. But there’s more spooking Wall Street than just tech earnings.

Persons: ”, David Laut, Tesla, Tesla’s, Jim Reid, Dan Ives Organizations: New, New York CNN, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, “ Tech, “, ChatGPT, Reserve, Deutsche, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York, Canada, France

☆ As Apple enters AI race, iPhone maker turns to its army of developers for an edge
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

As Apple prepares Apple Intelligence to jump into Silicon Valley’s AI race, it’s relying on one of its strongest advantages: Its army of 34 million app developers. IPhone users will get their first taste of Apple Intelligence, the company’s artificial intelligence system, later this month. The company is relying on Apple Intelligence to be the strongest selling point for the iPhone 16, its latest generation of smartphones. That’s something other company’s AI chatbots cannot currently do, and to accomplish this, Apple is beckoning its army of third-party developers to fine tune their apps to collaborate with Apple Intelligence. Another drawback is that Apple Intelligence features will only be available on the latest iPhones, a small subset of the total iPhone user base.

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☆ Arrowheads carried by Bronze Age warriors reveal who fought on Europe’s oldest battlefield
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But to archaeologists, the Tollense Valley is considered Europe’s oldest battlefield. The biggest mysteries that researchers aim to uncover are why the battle occurred and who fought in it. A long time agoYears of excavations in the Tollense Valley have uncovered evidence that the site was the scene of Europe's oldest battlefield 3,250 years ago. S. SauerDozens of bronze and flint arrowheads recovered from the Tollense Valley are revealing details about the able-bodied warriors who fought in the Bronze Age battle. The research team analyzed and compared the arrowheads, some of which were still embedded in the remains of the fallen.

Persons: Sauer, Al Hadid, ”, Martijn Oei, carolinus, Grearson, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN —, United Arab Emirates, ., California Institute of Technology, Grearson Harvard, Stanford, CNN Space, Science Locations: Germany, Bavaria, Moravia, Dubai, United Arab, China —, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Falkland, Antarctica

☆ Opinion | Silicon Valley’s MAGA Moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Chris Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I co-founded Facebook in college 20 years ago, but I left California and start-up culture behind long ago for public policy and economics. As we sat over scrambled eggs, chicken sausage and whole-wheat toast, I was struck by how many of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in Silicon Valley — including some I knew — were now loudly backing Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump claims that Mark Zuckerberg called him to say that he wouldn’t support a Democrat in November, although Mr. Zuckerberg’s spokesperson denied the claim. It would be easy to write off tech’s rightward drift as nothing more than the rich acting in their economic self-interest, but Silicon Valley has always been driven by profit, and it hasn’t tilted Republican since the 1980s. Even now, it remains largely Democratic, even though even some of Kamala Harris’s strongest Valley supporters worry about how she might approach tech policy.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, —, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg’s, Kamala Harris’s Organizations: Facebook Locations: Flatiron, Manhattan, California, Silicon Valley

Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an internet juggernaut and became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on Friday. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Dennis Troper, who wrote on Facebook on Friday that she had been living with lung cancer. A YouTube spokesman confirmed the date of her death. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, announced her death in a statement on Friday. “She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her,” he said.

Persons: Susan Wojcicki, Dennis Troper, Sundar Pichai, ” Organizations: Google, YouTube, Facebook

How the election is dividing techThe tech world has long been divided by rivalries: Macs versus PCs, open source versus closed source. It’s a reminder, as DealBook has noted, that Silicon Valley’s libertarian wing is feeling more emboldened to flex its money and influence to buck what has become a traditionally Democratic consensus. Who’s who: Some of the most vocal Democratic donors among the tech elite are Hoffman; Vinod Khosla, the venture capitalist; Aaron Levie, the C.E.O. On the Republican side are a camp of libertarians that includes Musk and the investors Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Then there are those staying neutral, including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, who are ostensibly trying to avoid antagonizing whoever wins in November.

Persons: Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Ryan Mac, Erin Griffith, Mike Isaac, DealBook, Who’s, Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Aaron Levie, Roger McNamee, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Organizations: Republican

☆ Kamala Harris wants to be America’s first Silicon Valley president. She has tech’s support
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —With Vice President Kamala Harris the front runner to receive the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, America’s most powerful industry is set to have a candidate on the ballot from its home turf. Harris’ failed 2020 presidential bid received support from various tech luminaries, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and legendary venture capitalist Ron Conway. Despite her friendly relationships with the industry’s leaders, Harris has also pushed for tech accountability in key areas. As vice president, Harris has taken a key role in the White House around establishing safety measures for artificial intelligence, which is widely viewed as the most consequential new technology in decades. In an interview with CNN, Hoffman added: “In Silicon Valley, actually there’s many threads that are very excited about her.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris, Sheryl Sandberg, Reed Hastings, Melinda French Gates, Donald Trump’s, Elon Musk, “ There’s, Biden, ” Aaron Levie, “, ” Harris, Sean Parker, she’s, Steve Jobs ’, Laurene Powell Jobs, Harris ’, Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Mark Zuckerberg, ” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Trump Harris, Trump, ” Sonnenfeld, I’ve, didn’t, ” Levie, “ Kamala Harris, Reid Hoffman, Hoffman, …, – CNN’s Matt Egan Organizations: New, New York CNN —, Democratic, Bay Area, Netflix, White, CNN, Cambridge, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Yale School of Management, Trump Locations: New York, Oakland , California, California, White, Silicon Valley, Silicon

☆ Silicon Valley Investors’ Plans for a New City Put on Hold
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Conor Dougherty | More About Conor Dougherty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Silicon Valley’s plans for a start-up city are on hold. The delay was announced as part of a joint agreement between California Forever, the company behind the development, and a member of the Solano County’s Board of Supervisors. The agreement means that a ballot initiative, which the company had hoped to put before Solano County’s voters this year, will not appear on the November ballot as planned. California Forever said it would instead spend the rest of this year and next preparing an environmental impact report and trying to craft a development agreement with the county. The project would still have to go before voters to win final approval.

Persons: San Francisco —, Solano County’s Organizations: East Solano Plan, Solano County’s, Supervisors, Solano Locations: San Francisco, California

How did the Democrats lose Silicon Valley? The loudest donors in Silicon Valley are promoting Trump at a time when the tech world as a whole is ascending in Washington, with billionaires using their ballooning wealth and media foothold to exert influence. Their voices are made all the more prominent amid the conspicuous neutrality of Big Tech leaders like the Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai and the Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, who are possibly afraid of invoking Trump’s ire and employee backlash. Musk was brushed off by President Biden over his anti-union stance and excluded from an electric vehicle event at the White House in 2021.

Persons: Elon Musk, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Trump’s, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Biden, Tesla Organizations: Elon, Trump, Big Tech, Google, White House Locations: Silicon Valley, Washington

☆ What Happens When Your Bank Isn’t Really a Bank and Your Money Disappears?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Rob Copeland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For close to a century, putting your savings into a federally insured bank has been a sure thing: If the institution fails, up to $250,000 of your money will be protected. The promise of bank insurance — a tenet of U.S. consumer protection since the Great Depression — is now being tested by a crisis swirling around online-only lenders with hundreds of millions of dollars of deposits between them. Most depositors have little clue where their money has gone, and whether they will get any of it back. It operated banking software for fast-growing online lenders with names like Juno, Yieldstreet and Yotta. Their slick websites advertise insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the U.S. agency that pledges to pay back lost funds.

Persons: you’ve Organizations: Synapse Technology, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S . Locations: U.S

☆ Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Many areas in Northern California surpassed 110 degrees, with the city of Redding topping out at a record 119 degrees. Due to the high temperatures, emergency medical helicopters were unable to respond, as the aircraft cannot generally fly safely over 120 degrees, officials said. Death Valley has reached or exceeded 125 degrees every day since July 4. “Death Valley during the summer has always been a bucket list thing for me. Well, high temperatures across (western Nevada and northeastern California) won’t get below 100 degrees until next weekend,” the service posted online.

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☆ Mount Halla: Soup broth harming South Korea’s highest mountain, warn officials
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Lilit Marcus | Gawon Bae | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —South Korea’s highest mountain is facing environmental damage from an unexpected source – instant noodles. Mount Halla, measuring 1,947 meters (1.2 miles) tall, is the country’s highest mountain and located on popular vacation destination Jeju Island. Mount Halla is part of the UNESCO-listed Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes heritage site. Last year, 923,680 people visited the mountain, according to government statistics. According to Korean media, ramyun is now offered for sale at the top of the Matterhorn, the Alpine peak in Switzerland.

Persons: Mount Halla, ramyun Organizations: CNN, South, Office, Mount, Mount Halla, UNESCO Locations: South Korea, Switzerland

☆ Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley’s most famous convict, makes her long-shot appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company, Theranos. She is seeking a new trial, arguing that the judge in her case erred in several decisions during the 2022 proceedings. Since her conviction, her projected release date from prison has been moved up, shaving about two years off her sentence. Theranos’ unraveling, and Holmes herself, became the subject of a bestselling book, a Hulu scripted series and an award-winning documentary. Holmes knowingly concealed the technology’s problems, and still pushed to get the company’s Edison devices into pharmacies, prosecutors argued.

Persons: Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes, Stanford, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch, Ramesh “ Sunny ”, “ Holmes, Balwani, Holmes ’, Theranos, “, Edward Davila, Balwani “, laywers, ”, Agustin Orozco, Crowell, Orozco Organizations: New, New York CNN, California’s, Circuit, Wall Street, Prosecutors, Moring Locations: New York, California, Texas

☆ ‘Silicon Valley Princess’: Inside the Life of Nicole Shanahan, R.F.K. Jr.’s Running Mate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kirsten Grind | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Shanahan, 38, a onetime Silicon Valley lawyer, has never held public office and has scant name recognition. But she was selected after Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Ventura fell through as vice-presidential candidates and Mr. Kennedy’s campaign needed money to fund its efforts to get onto state ballots, three people familiar with the events said. And money was something that Ms. Shanahan could provide in abundance. During their five-year marriage, Ms. Shanahan partied with Silicon Valley’s elite and used recreational drugs including cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms, according to eight people and documents reviewed by The New York Times. Ms. Shanahan and Mr. Brin separated after she had a sexual encounter with Elon Musk in 2021, three of the people said.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Aaron Rodgers, Jesse Ventura, Kennedy, Nicole Shanahan, Ms, Shanahan, Rodgers, Ventura, Sergey Brin, Brin, Elon Musk Organizations: Google, The New York Times Locations: Minnesota

☆ News publishers sound alarm on Google’s new AI-infused search, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In other words, users will soon no longer have to click on the links displayed in search results to find the information they are seeking. Why spend time clicking on a link when Google has already scoured the internet and harvested the relevant information with its A.I.? Coffey, whose organization represents more than 2,000 news publishers and has taken an aggressive posture toward A.I. This time with a product that directly competes with our content, using our content to fuel it. Most recently, it drew scorn after temporarily blocking some California news outlets from search results in response to a bill that would force it to pay publishers.

Persons: —, ” Danielle Coffey, Coffey, newsrooms, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Mark Zuckerberg, “, we’ll, ” Marc McCollum Organizations: New York CNN, Google, News / Media Alliance, Big Tech, The New York Times Locations: New York, California

☆ A.I. and the Silicon Valley Hype Machine - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But now, a year later, the question isn’t really whether A.I. It feels like another sign that A.I. That realization has real implications for the way we, our employers and our government should deal with Silicon Valley’s latest dazzling new, new thing. Acknowledging A.I.’s flaws could help us invest our resources more efficiently and also allow us to turn our attention toward more realistic solutions. “I find my feelings about A.I.

Persons: Sam Altman, “, ”, Molly White

☆ TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The swift passage this week of legislation to force the sale or ban of TikTok was the first time a federal tech law has been approved in years. And after a logjam of dozens of bills to rein in the business practices and power of tech giants, it appeared some momentum was building for further regulation. But experts on tech legislation say that the unique speed of the passage of the TikTok legislation — a rare unified effort that took seven weeks from start to finish — is highly unlikely to be repeated. Lawmakers continue to squabble over the details on legislative proposals, and congressional leaders haven’t pushed their momentum. And conditions for any momentum are likely to worsen before the November election, when legislators will try not to rock the boat.

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☆ Start-Up Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Erin Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Another start-up founder is going to prison for overstating his company’s performance to investors. His misrepresentations allowed him to raise $117 million in funding from top investment firms, valuing his start-up at $1.1 billion. When HeadSpin’s board members found out about the behavior in 2020, they pushed Mr. Lachwani to resign and slashed the company’s valuation by two-thirds. Mr. Lachwani is at least the fourth start-up founder in recent years to face serious consequences after taking Silicon Valley’s culture of hype too far. Other founders currently in prison for fraud include Sam Bankman-Fried of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani of the blood testing start-up Theranos.

Persons: Manish Lachwani, Lachwani, Sam Bankman, Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

☆ AI is threatening Americans’ jobs. Could guaranteed income provide a safety net?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

That idea of guaranteed income is receiving renewed interest as AI becomes an increasing threat to Americans’ livelihoods. As more Americans’ jobs are increasingly at risk due to the threat of AI, Tubbs and other proponents of guaranteed income say this could be one solution to help provide a safety net and cushion the expected blow AI will have on the labor market. “Then, when we have to deal with that job displacement, we’re better positioned to do so.”Silicon Valley’s infatuation with guaranteed incomeThe idea of a guaranteed income is not new. AFP/Getty ImagesDecades after King’s death, the idea of guaranteed income went on to see a resurgence of support emanating out of Silicon Valley. Other tech industry tycoons, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, have also thrown immense financial support behind guaranteed income programs.

Persons: CNN — Michael Tubbs, Tubbs, ”, “, ” Michael Tubbs, Nick Otto, ” Tubbs, Nathan Frandino, Let’s, Martin Luther King, Jr, I’m, ” King, King, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman —, Musk, Rishi Sunak, Zuckerberg, ” Altman, Altman, Sam Altman, Justin Sullivan, Elizabeth Rhodes, Jack Dorsey, Dorsey, Ken Paxton, ” Paxton, overreach, ‘ It’s, ’ Tomas Vargas Jr, Vargas, I’ve, that’s, ” Tomas Vargas Jr, Tomas Vargas Jr, ” Vargas Organizations: CNN, Getty, Global, Monetary Fund, Reuters, Stockton, Civil Rights, Washington DC, Elon, “, UK, Harvard, Facebook, YCombinator, Twitter, UPS Locations: Stockton , California, Silicon Valley, Big, America, Stockton, AFP, San Joaquin, U.S, Washington, Alaska, YCombinator, San Francisco , California, United States, Texas, Harris, Harris County

☆ Can Xerox’s PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( John Markoff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Can Xerox’s PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI? 1974 A key part of PARC office of the future vision is a network to tie office systems together. The PARC laboratory, set in the foothills just south of Stanford, is now largely empty, hosting less than 100 researchers, far from a peak of almost 400. Mr. Parekh said that the stage was now set for a second leap forward in the way humans interacted with computers. “This is our annuity for the future for investing in research,” Mr. Parekh said.

Persons: Steve Jobs, Jobs, Apple’s Lisa, IBM’s Thomas J, “, ”, Eric Schmidt, Google’s, Bernardo Huberman, Mr, Huberman, Douglas Engelbart, Siri, Bill Duvall, Charley Kline, CALO, David Parekh, Parekh, SIRI, Curtis Carlson, Charles Simonyi, Jan Vandenbrande, Research Jan Vandenbrande, Johan De Kleer, San Organizations: Xerox’s PARC, SRI, Palo, Palo Alto Research, PARC, Mr, Xerox, SRI International, Stanford Research Institute, Xerox Dover, Xerox Corporation, T’s Bell Laboratories, Watson Research Center, Bay, “ PARC, of America, Machine, UCLA, Pentagon, Apple, Macintosh, Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, Windows, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Research Locations: Palo Alto, Stanford’sy, Stanford, Silicon, Menlo Park, Los Angeles, Calif, San Francisco, San Jose

☆ He prosecuted child sex predators. Now, he’s going after Meta for allegedly enabling them
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Meta, along with other major social media companies, faces growing scrutiny over the safety of young users on its platforms. But of the several lawsuits filed against Meta over child safety in recent years, none have focused as pointedly as Torrez’s case on alleged child sexual exploitation. In some cases, Torrez said he volunteered to take child abuse cases and to visit safe houses to conduct interviews with child victims. The New Mexico Attorney General's office alleges it found in an investigation of Facebook and Instagram accounts promoting sexualized images of minors. Meta also says it has removed hundreds of thousands of accounts, groups and devices for violating its child safety policies.

Persons: Raúl Torrez, Torrez, Presiliano Torrez, ”, Mark Zuckerberg, pornographers, General Raúl Torrez, Countess, ” Torrez, Zuckerberg, Frances Haugen, ” Meta, Obama, Meta, Rebecca Wright, —, Linda Atkinson, aren’t, “, New Mexico Attorney General's, Issa Bee, Issa, you’re, Nkechi Nneji, Evelyn Hockstein, Ann Olivarius, McAlister Olivarius Organizations: New, New York CNN, Facebook, Meta, Tech, Getty, CNN, Communications, ”, Harvard, London School of Economics, Stanford Law School, New Mexico Department of Justice, New Mexico Attorney, PayPal, National Center for, Force, Reuters, Bureau, US News Locations: New York, New Mexico, Torrez, Washington ,, Albuquerque, Mexico, ”, Bernalillo County, Torrez’s, United States

☆ Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Daisuke Wakabayashi | Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Temu, the international arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, is flooding Google with ads for absurdly inexpensive goods. With an initial public offering looming, the fast-fashion merchant Shein is inundating Instagram with ads for clothes and accessories at rock-bottom prices. Developers of China’s video streaming and gaming apps are dumping marketing dollars into Facebook, X and YouTube to entice potential users. In the last year, Temu has placed about 1.4 million ads globally across Google services, and at least 26,000 different versions of ads on Meta, according to Meta’s Ad Library. “You can’t escape their ads across Facebook, Instagram and Google Search.”

Persons: Shein, Temu, ”, Canaves Organizations: Facebook, YouTube, Google, Meta, Ad Locations: China, United States, eMarketer

☆ ‘Dune: Part Two’ Gives Sci-Fi-Obsessed Silicon Valley a Reason to Party
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a top-floor atrium in downtown San Francisco on Thursday evening, tech workers from Google, Slack, X and Mozilla mingled next to a pair of cardboard cutouts of Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. Alex Stamos, the former head of security at Facebook, was also spotted. “Do you think they’ll let me take home one of the freaky sandworm popcorn buckets?” someone in the crowd tittered. The techies were all there to celebrate Silicon Valley’s newest obsession: “Dune: Part 2,” the latest movie adapted from the Frank Herbert-authored science-fiction saga, which helped inspire many of them to become interested in technology. The film, which follows the 2021 installment “Dune,” sold an estimated $81.5 million in tickets in the United States and Canada over the weekend, the biggest opening for a Hollywood film since “Barbie.”

Persons: Zendaya, Dustin Moskovitz, chatted, Tim O’Reilly, Alex Stamos, Frank Herbert, ”, “ Barbie Organizations: Google, Mozilla, Facebook Locations: San Francisco, United States, Canada

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