Link: Frank McCourt's Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok's US assets and keep the app alive without its current algorithm (Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat/Reuters)
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09
Link: Amazon is selling the tech behind its $50 billion ad business to other retailers
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08
Link: Whatnot, which lets users sell comics and other items through live videos, raised a $265M Series E at a $4.97B valuation, and says its annual GMV passed $3B (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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08
Link: Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind
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Jan
08
Link: Microsoft open sources the 14B-parameter AI model Phi-4 and its weights, available on Hugging Face under a MIT License, after releasing it in December 2024 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
