Cryptocurrency Hearings, Antitrust Actions, and Digital Wallet Innovations

Instagram is going to bring back a version of its chronological feed, sort of. The congressional hearings about Instagram, but also crypto. I was wrong: we are seeing Novi in the wild as WhatsApp starts testing it in the US. Deep Mind unveils its language model, and say goodbye to… checks notes… Alexa?

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• Schwab.com/plan
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Links:

• Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)
• Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)
• What we learned at Congress' much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)
• Epic v. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay (The Verge)
• Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance (Politico.eu)
• WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)
• Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)
• DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)
• Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)

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