📍 AI-Powered Maps, Meta's Surge, Hamas Crypto Update
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Google Maps is becoming more like Search - thanks to AI. Google is adding a range of new AI-powered features to Maps, including more immersive navigation, easier-to-follow driving directions, and better organized search results. The end result is an experience that will likely remind many users of Google Search. By Andrew J. Hawkins via The Verge
Google Maps is becoming more like Search — thanks to AI - Juank (@JCSura)
Meta's Threads reaches almost 100 million active users. Meta's Threads continues to grow, all while the service it aped, X, continues to splutter and fall apart. Mark Zuckerberg said that Threads currently has “just under” 100 million monthly active users and that the app could reach 1 billion users in the next couple of years. By Mat Smith via Engadget
Meta’s Threads reaches almost 100 million active users - Lisa Landman (@lisalandman_)
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Setting the record straight on crypto crowdfunding by Hamas. There is no evidence to support the assertion that Hamas has received significant volumes of crypto donations. A full understanding of blockchain analysis and the context of any analysis is needed when using these insights to draw conclusions. Elliptic
There is currently a coordinated PR campaign, likely led by the warren wing, which is attempting to meme “hamas is funded using bitcoin” into existence using WSJ reporters. the blockchain proves that they’re lying about it - suzuha (@dystopiabreaker)
Google Play's policy update cracks down on 'offensive' AI apps, disruptive notifications. Google is taking aim at potentially problematic generative AI apps with a new policy, to be enforced starting early next year, that will require developers of Android applications published on its Play Store to offer the ability to report or flag offensive AI-generated content. By Sarah Perez via TechCrunch
Google Play’s policy update cracks down on ‘offensive’ AI apps, disruptive notifications - Giovanni Sarazani (@juststamina)
One Year On, Twitter Continues to Burn a Hole Through Bank Balance Sheets. The banks that financed Elon Musk 's $44 billion purchase of Twitter are still struggling a year later to contain the damage to their balance sheets. Seven banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Barclays lent Musk around $13 billion to buy Twitter a year ago this coming Friday. By Alexander Saeedy via Wall Street Journal
The banks that financed Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter are still struggling a year later to contain the damage to their balance sheets - Ellen Chang (@EllenYChang)
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