Doing Business Without Regulating

Twitter engineers can still use God mode to tweet as any account claims a whistleblower. Amazon Web Services is going to spend $35 billion on data centers in Virginia. TikTok has confirmed that its own employees can decide what goes viral. Vox media is also laying off 7% of their staff, according to reports.

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ChatGPT is everywhere: destroyer of worlds, or modern convenient pocket calculator; Section 230 ruling coming; gravity batteries & Tesla factories; Spotify, Vox Media layoffs; TikTok, Twitter gaming their systems; Justice Department after Google's ad business; AWS expanding in Virginia; Easter Sunday; Elvis; Madoff; Strange World; Slow Horses; White Lotus; the Last of Us; the Schulmister Effect & the DeFillippo Effect; shiny new Apple stuff; Microsoft investing in OpenAI; the World Walker; Annie Grace & Russel Brand on addiction; Disneyland & the pure joy of Star Wars Land; the Safety Dance.

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