Adam Mosseri says Threads won't encourage politics, Apple plans slow retail rollout for Vision Pro

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said Threads would not encourage politics or "hard news" due to associated scrutiny and negativity risks - Link

Bloomberg sources: Apple is planning a slow, appointment-only retail rollout of its Vision Pro headset - Link

Gemini, a crypto exchange, has sued Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group, with Gemini Co-Founder Cameron Winklevoss calling Silbert "the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors." - Link

China's central bank fined Ant Group ~$984M after two years of probes into the company, which was founded by Jack Ma - Link

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Lon joins Jason to extract the business lessons from the film Blackberry (2:19). The two discuss the company’s rise and fall, the benefits of having multiple co-founders (9:11), the psychology of framing (23:05), knowing when to "fake it 'til you make it" (56:19) and much more! - Link

data.ai data: Twitter alternative Bluesky surpassed 1M downloads across iOS and Android devices - Link

Food delivery platforms Uber, DoorDash, Grubhub, and Relay have sued NYC over a new pay standard, which would require gig platforms to pay food delivery workers ~$18/hour, which would increase to $20/hour by 2025 - Link

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads product, accusing the company of poaching former employees and misappropriating trade secrets to create a copycat app - Link

Telexistence, a Tokyo-based startup building AI-powered robotic arms for retail and logistics applications, raised a $170M Series B from SoftBank, Airbus Ventures, and others - Link

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