Not many details yet, but here’s a link to WSJ story: “Google’s search and internet services for consumers have been unavailable in China since 2010, although the company retains operations in the country, primarily around its advertising business.”
@martyswant
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China launches antitrust investigation into Google amid trade tensions
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Google’s facing yet another antitrust investigation. Where in the world is this one? Chinese government officials just revealed the news while announcing new tariffs in response to Trump’s trade war.
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Preserving CFPB Data Against Potential Government Removal
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cc: @SenWarren
, who helped create the CFPB. Note: I have no direct knowledge that there are plans to remove CFPB websites/data, but seems like a smart thing to do preemptively just in case. -
Federal Data Preservation: CFPB Consumer Complaints Database at Risk
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PSA: For those who helped download & preserve all federal websites/data over the weekend, you might want to hurry & do the same for CFPB's data in case it's taken offline. Lots of data on @CFPB's website including a public database of consumer complaints against businesses.
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CFPB Financial Regulation Consumer Data Protection Framework
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The @CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from predatory financial practices. It's also helped protect consumers' financial data & prevent data misuse. CFPB also oversees credit reporting agencies, the student loan market, auto loans & more.
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X Payment System Launch Raises Treasury Departure Legality Concerns
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Does this @USTreasury departure have anything to do with X being in the middle of building its own payment system? Sounds like people are concerned with this, with some questioning if what’s happening is even legal.
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Ellison’s Oracle Links Stargate Project and TikTok Acquisition Talks
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Context this urgent & important @nytimes scoop doesn’t note: Larry Ellison is CTO & cofounder of Oracle, which is involved w/ the $500 billion Stargate project Trump announced w/ OpenAI & SoftBank. Oracle also manages TikTok’s U.S. data & reportedly is in talks to buy the app.
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Google and Meta dominate AI model pre-training landscape
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Thanks! Yeah seems like so far Google/Meta are the only two adtech horses in the race for pre-training. (I'm curious if any ML engineers with Llama/Gemini experience also have ad-tech experience.) Would love to hear more what you're doing with post-training though!
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LLM Training Experience in AdTech Products
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Anyone in #adtech (currently or previously) have experience training LLMs, either open-source or closed models? Also looking to connect with more people that have direct experience building adtech products using LLMs.
