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The GameStop stock roller coaster has come to the dip

The Verge

Chart: Apple Stocks. Chart: Apple Stocks. It was lovely reading those stories on Reddit about how GameStop stock changed their lives and will help them pay medical bills, save pets etc and I really, really, really hope they sold pic.twitter.com/Kcjwf4NNnN — Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) February 2, 2021.

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OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models

TechCrunch

Rentals will be based on dedicated compute units with three-month or one-year commitments; running an individual model instance will require a specific number of compute units (see the chart below). Instances won’t be cheap. Running a lightweight version of GPT-3.5

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Discord has turned into a virtual trade floor with memes, stonks, and chaos

The Verge

The Reddit community r/WallStreetBets has turned to Discord in recent weeks to organize and communicate in real time, as it seeks to force hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling retail companies like GameStop and AMC. It’s a hugely popular app, with more than 100 million monthly active users.

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In 2021 everyone gets 15 minutes of wealth

TechCrunch

Trades in the infamous Reddit-basket of stocks and trades are taking a pounding today, with GameStop down 52.7%, AMC Entertainment off 42.7%, the silver-squeeze flopping and more. Because the companies that Reddit’s legion of traders decided to pump were ultimately not selected for anything other than price plasticity.

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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

The Verge

It plans to give group moderators adjustable tools for proactively weeding out bad messages through Hive, an automated content moderation platform that Reddit also uses. Unlike Clubhouse, IRL has yet to crack the top of the App Store’s free downloads chart, according to the research firm Apptopia.

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Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate

TechCrunch

In the lead-up to the court hearing the case, a host of amicus briefs emphasized its far-reaching implications: from nonprofits ( Wikimedia Foundation ) to community content moderation ( Reddit and Reddit moderators ) and small businesses and startups ( Engine ).

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The complicated case of Threes, 2048, and the giants that ripped everyone off in the end

The Verge

Threes even charted well in the App Store, hitting the number one spot, where it remained for over a week. Ketchapp’s] 2048 was on top of charts for multiple years, bringing in the big bucks, basically cashing in on this product that was the result of this chain of clones,” Vollmer says. From its launch, the reception was rapturous.

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