Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning: Senator Marsha Blackburn, the Kids Online Safety Act’s lead sponsor, says the US legislation would be used to “protect minor children” from transgender people  — ... Read more »

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X’s US ad... Read more »

David Heaney / UploadVR: Report: Meta has partnered with LG to launch a new Quest Pro in 2025 to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro; Meta plans to release a sub-$200 headset in... Read more »

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” to be regulated under EU’s DMA  —  Battle comes ahead... Read more »

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts ... Read more »

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: How LLMs like GPT-4 can be an equalizing technology in some cases, boosting less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field  —  An optimistic take on technology... Read more »

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Filing: Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma became the biggest investor in the company, with a 19.42% stake, after he acquired shares from China’s Ant Group  —  Billionaire Vijay... Read more »

Matt Poskitt / GamesIndustry.biz: Q&A with Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines on releasing Starfield, working with Microsoft, Game Pass, triple-A games in 2023, debugging Starfield, and more  —  Head of publishing... Read more »

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: The Huawei Mate 60 Pro’s 7nm Kirin 9000s chip, made by SMIC, is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary development and shows US curbs are porous, not useless  — ... Read more »