Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity
Plus - Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity; Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy
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OpenAI launches Operator
Plus - Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more; X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users
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Scale AI is facing a third worker lawsuit in about a month
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, Tumblr has decided it’s finally time to launch Tumblr TV, which has since evolved to support video, to all its users as one of its standard features.
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Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses
Plus - Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes; Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US
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TikTok competitors claim the top of the App Store
Plus - Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’; DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks
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