🎈 Balloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China Intensifies

Plus: Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs, Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing 'good' content, and more…

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Balloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China Intensifies. It may be months before American intelligence agencies can compare the audacious flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the country to other intrusions on America's national security systems, to determine how it ranks. After all, there is… (David E. Sanger / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

News Analysis: There's nothing new about superpowers spying on one another — even from balloons. But for pure gall, there was something different this time.

nyti.msBalloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China IntensifiesThere is nothing new about superpowers spying on one another, even from balloons. But for pure gall, there was something different this time.

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Blame the CEO for tech layoffs at Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon. In an attempt to explain why the company had laid off 12,000 employees, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, said executives decided to slash jobs after a 'rigorous review' of Google's internal structures and organization. (Ed Zitron / Business Insider)

Insider Business @BusinessInsider

Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs

businessinsider.comSilicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOsTech CEOs at companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon screwed up — but it’s the laid-off employees who are paying the price.

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Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing 'good' content. Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline, Elon Musk said that due to feedback Twitter will provide a write-only API for… (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing 'good' content tcrn.ch/3JDXSLJ by @IndianIdle

tcrn.chElon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing ‘good’ contentElon Musk said that due to feedback Twitter will provide a write-only API for “bots providing good content that is free.”

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ChatGPT Will Replace Some Jobs, But Traders Say Not Theirs. Most economists and traders aren't using AI, and they don't see it as a threat anytime soon, survey shows. Advanced artificial intelligence systems stand to threaten jobs primarily in the financial, legal and technology sectors, according to the… (Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Markets @markets

ChatGPT and other AI systems are seen as a threat to finance and journalism, a survey of investors shows. But traders don't view their own jobs as being at risk anytime soon

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Disney cuts 'Simpsons' episode from streaming service in Hong Kong. Missing episode mentions ‘forced labour camps' in China Receive free Censorship updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Censorship news every morning. Disney has cut an episode of The Simpsons cartoon that… (Chan Ho-him / Financial Times)

Eli Meixler @elimeixler

🚨 Scoop @ThomasHHChan @FinancialTimes: Disney has cut an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ — its second — from the Disney+ streaming platform in Hong Kong over a reference to “forced labour camps” in China ft.com/content/05d7df…

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