Tech Moves: Google's Competitive Concerns and TikTok Trivia Launch

The US is suing Terraform Labs and Do Kwon. The UK is investigating rumors that Google paid Apple NOT to spin up its own search engine. Susan Wojcicki stepping down as YouTube CEO is a major end of an era. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

Links:

• SEC Sues Over TerraUSD Stablecoin That Rocked Crypto (Bloomberg)
• What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue (The Register)
• TikTok is launching a $500,000 live trivia contest (The Verge)
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down (Vox)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference (Wired)
• Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars (Forbes)
• PlayStation VR2 is exciting, exhausting and a new standard for VR (Launcher)
• How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language (MIT Technology Review)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)
• Roko's basilisk (Wikipedia)

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