Exclusive: France's #TF1 , the country’s most popular free-to-air TV network, is planning expand its free streaming platform TF1+ to French-speaking countries of Europe and Africa bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

It finally happened: Swisscom to Buy Vodafone’s Italian Business for €8 Billion, Merge With Fastweb - Bloomberg. With ⁦Amy Thomson⁩ ⁦Paula Doenecke⁩ ⁦Clara Hernanz Lizarraga⁩ ⁦Bastian Benrath⁩ ⁦Edwin Chan⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A pleasure to collab on my first Bloomberg scoop with Loni Prinsloo, Natalie Lung and fellow editors.

We are hiring a media reporter.

If you or someone you know wants to come work with a killer team of journalists, please apply (or reach out directly).

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SoftBank’s Vision Fund, once known for splashy ten-figure valuations, now plans to start investing 'timidly” -- right at the start of a generative AI boom. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Mark Bergen Agatha Cantrill🤖

BEYOND excited to welcome Shona Ghosh to our team today! talkingbiznews.com/media-news/blo…

Excited (and mildly daunted) to say it’s my first day as an editor with Bloomberg’s EMEA tech team today! I’m psyched to work with an incredible set of reporters and editors whose work I’ve long admired/envied.

Some professional news: I've started a new job at Bloomberg covering telecom and chip companies in Europe. This means I'll be traveling around Europe to write about everything from 5G rollout to OpenRAN to fabs. Telco and chip people around Europe, let's chat!

Scoop! A pair of Google DeepMind AI scientists are in talks to leave for a stealth startup in Paris, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Mark Bergen Benoît Berthelot Lizette Chapman Sarah G McBride

Palantir launched a paid influencer marketing campaign to counter criticism of its £330m deal with the NHS.

Influencers were instructed not to mention Palantir in their posts - but one of them ratted the company out to Good Law Project

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NHS Probes Whether Palantir Campaign Breached Contract Terms scoop from ⁦Olivia Solon⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: Paramount has renewed talks to sell BET, this time to a management-led consortium.

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In case you missed it: It's been a tough year for fintech companies - but Revolut's revenue is still booming, according to early figures seen by Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

New from me and Rachel Metz: LAION-5B, the world’s largest openly accessible image-text dataset, includes at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material and could include thousands more, per a new report from Stanford Internet Observatory

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EXC: Rishi Sunak's government considers crackdown on young teens' social media use 🧵

- Possible legal ban on use of social media by under-16s
- Consultation to begin as soon as January
- Currently industry standard is for 13+ on Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook
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Top scoop Thomas Seal Kitty Donaldson Jillian Deutsch >>

Sunak Considers Crackdown on Young Teens’ Social Media Use

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Morning! It’s nearly 6 am, and the AI trilogue is still ongoing after starting at 3 pm CET…

We are hiring a technology, media and telecom editor on our team in EMEA. Come join the tech family at Bloomberg. It's a really excellent one. careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/121… #TechJobs #TechNews #HIRINGNOW Amy Thomson

Today’s Bloomberg Technology show: 9amPT on Bloomberg TV

Latest: Rachel Metz, Dina Bass,Max Chafkin and Ashlee Vance (and me?)

Voices: sarah guo // conviction, Bradley Tusk

OpenAI developer impact: Matt Schlicht

EA/Existential: Zachary Lipton

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