The Dangers of Misinformation in the Age of Paid Verification

Apple continues to play nice with Broadcom despite hoping to drop them someday. The thing people warned about with these bluechecks happened yesterday. HBOMax isn’t cool. You know what is cool, according to David Zaslov? Max. And how Shareit became the world’s favorite file sharing app.

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Links:

• Apple expands US investment with new multibillion-dollar Broadcom deal for 5G tech (9to5Mac)
• Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion (Motherboard)
• Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M (TechCrunch)
• Max will stream over 1,000 movies and TV episodes in 4K at launch (The Verge)
• Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages (MIT Technology Review)
• Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (The Verge)
• Anthropic raises $450M to build next-gen AI assistants (TechCrunch)
• How China’s ShareIt became the world’s go-to file-transfer app (Rest of World)

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