Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+  —  TikTok parent, pushing global expansion, plans to tap Blackwell processors that are barred for export to China

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The European Commission says “X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark” in the EU and the commission will now “assess the proposed remedies”  —  Elon Musk's X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has agreed to change its verification mechanism …

Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs  —  A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers - the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide.

Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more  —  Lately, Manu Ebert has been trying to keep his A.I. from humiliating him.  —  I recently visited Ebert, a machine-learning engineer …

The most recent head of the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission is taking a new job with a ride-hailing tech company — just weeks after TLC branded it as “illegal.” David Do is jumping to Empower as senior vice president of government and regulatory affairs shortly after exiting the agency that oversees the city’s sprawling […]

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