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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-20 15:15:40

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

TikTok’s Europe, Africa and LatAm Business Turns Its First Profit
TikTok made $9.1 billion and its first profit in Europe and Latin America but faces a wave of lawsuits and investigations from European regulators.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-07-21 01:32:54

So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/stat

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-08-21 08:06:10

RE: mastodon.ie/@aceade/1171270435
Has he tried fucking right off? Because I have a feeling fucking right off might really work for him.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-09-20 19:39:41

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker
This linked to a post about turning a $20 4G hotspot into a little portable linux machine w/ keyboard. This part right here almost made me feel some strong feelings...

An image of the hostspot device without its case; a big metal over, and then green circuit board (PCB). Red lines run straight through each side of the board, approximately half an inch away from each end of the board. The next paragraph is titled "Cutting", and says "Cutting the PCB went unexpectedly well. The device booted up immediately and everything seemed to work. Turns out there really were no crucial lines going through those areas of the PCB."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-20 04:30:41

Filing: Condé Nast UK reports pre-tax profits down 36% YoY to £18M in 2025, as restructuring charges more than doubled to £4.3M; revenue fell 7% to £70.6M (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/media/2026/oct

Condé Nast’s UK profits drop by more than a third as sale of Vogue publisher ruled out
Magazine group points to restructuring bill but says it ‘remains profitable in the UK for another year’

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-19 16:25:59

Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)
axios.com/2026/09/19/justice-d

Scoop: DOJ's copyright filing took key agencies by surprise
The department argues copyrighted works to train models should be considered fair use because that practice is new and transformative.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-20 15:30:42

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

TikTok’s Europe, Africa and LatAm Business Turns Its First Profit
TikTok made $9.1 billion and its first profit in Europe and Latin America but faces a wave of lawsuits and investigations from European regulators.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-19 14:25:44

Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/10/19/openai-bug

OpenAI bugging suspect WhatsApp'ed Saudi royal days before arrest, feds reveal
Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-19 10:16:22

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-19 09:46:08

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (Denny Thomas/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20