Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…
hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Putin warns U.S.-Russia ties could be destroyed if Trump sends Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/putin-warns-usrussia-ties-could.html
Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers "have built with OpenAI", and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-…
As Google's YouTube TV and Disney continue a contract dispute, customers have lost some access to DVR files and digital movie purchases via Movies Anywhere (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/openai-lets-chatgpt-users-connec…
Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/0
Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/spotify-now-has-half-a-mi…
TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tiktok-users-top-200-million-eu…