Tue. 12/17 – TikTok CEO Dines With Trump

On the same day that ByteDance asks the US Supreme Court to intervene, the TikTok CEO meets with Donald Trump. DeepMind’s big new competitor to Sora called Veo 2. The FTC comes down against so called “junk fees.” And on their historic raise, a deep dive look at Databricks, one of the biggest private companies in the world.

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• Miro.com

Links:

• Trump meets with TikTok CEO as video app challenges potential ban (NBCNews)
• TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations (NYTimes)
• Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (TechCrunch)
• FTC issues rules requiring hotels, ticket sellers to reveal ‘junk fees’ (WashingtonPost)
• Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination (CNBC)
• His Startup Is Now Worth $62 Billion. It Gave Away Its First Product Free. (WSJ)
• Google’s Whisk AI generator will ‘remix’ the pictures you plug in (The Verge)

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