Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Brave releases its AI-powered assistant Leo to all desktop users, unveils $15/month Leo Premium, with access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits  —  Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing tool to test different versions of Reels and see which perform best  —  Creators on Facebook are getting a handful of new tools on the platform — including the ability to test how different Reels perform against each other. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Niket Nishant / Reuters: PayPal discloses that the company received an SEC subpoena tied to its US dollar stablecoin, launched in August 2023  —  Payments firm PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) said on Thursday it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tied to its U.S. dollar stablecoin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: TikTok users sent $250M+ worth of digital gifts to US livestreamers in Q3; TikTok takes a 50% cut and is on track to earn $500M in US tips in 2023  —  A young man with a shaved head and leather jacket bounces up and down in New York’s Union Square, chanting “TGIF” as viewers send him a stream of tips costing a few cents each. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Les Pounder / Tom’s Hardware: Arm acquires a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, extending the long-term partnership between the two companies that has seen Arm CPUs feature in all Pi SoCs  —  Arm wants a slice of Pi  —  Arm Holdings plc today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: US v. Google: Apple said “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed its privacy stance in a 2013 internal presentation sent from Eddy Cue to Tim Cook  —  – Apple’s internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jared Newman / TechHive: Amazon adds advertisements for physical products, such as earbuds, to Fire TV’s top feature carousel, which until now has only promoted streaming video content  —  Amazon will hawk products straight from the top carousel and bring ads into search results.  —  CORD-CUTTER CONFIDENTIAL Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022  —  – FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon  — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’ Lees verder op Tech Meme