I'm guessing you haven't heard of Thomas Tull.

Well, he's worth $3b; he produced The Dark Knight, Inception, Godzilla; he has the ear of Congress & the Biden admin; and he's one of today's biggest defense tech investors—so I think it's about time you did:
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Today marks 3 years at The Information ! And I have a new title :) I am now Team Leader, focusing on shaping our creator economy coverage and growing the franchise. I’ll still be writing the newsletter, bringing you scoops, features, & events etc. More to come!

Creator Economy: TikTok’s efforts to develop AI avatars to star in advertiser videos signal a potential risk to creators. But that future may be a long way off, writes Erin Woo.

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Exclusive: OpenAI has fired two AI safety researchers for allegedly leaking information, including an ally of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.

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From Erin Woo and Stephanie Palazzolo.

TikTok has discussed an AI-powered feature for advertisers, generating avatars that could eventually compete with human creators for brand deals.

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By Erin Woo Jing Yang & Juro Osawa

New: TikTok has started pitching advertisers on an in-development generative AI tool that would create AI avatars to star in their ads—potentially competing with creators for brand deals in the process.

scoop with Jing Yang and Juro Osawa: theinformation.com/articles/tikto…

HSBC cut off ByteDance's bank accounts after probing whether the TikTok owner risked facilitating money laundering or terrorism financing.

Then ByteDance lied to EU regulators about it.

ICYMI - big report from me yesterday - only in The Information

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TikTok created its own payments tech, w/ the help of JPMorgan, so it could avoid giant fees.

But HSBC discovered deficiencies in the money laundering controls' at ByteDance. The company then lied about it to Irish regulators.

by Michael Roddan

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🚨HOT🚨GLOBAL🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨

TikTok owner ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland after HSBC shut down the Chinese company's bank accounts after a money laundering probe
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Scoop: TikTok is introducing a new app (code name Coin App) in Spain & France that allows users to earn points by watching videos and doing other tasks, that can be redeemed as gift cards or sent to creators as digital tips, as growth in EU is “stagnant” theinformation.com/articles/tikto…

counterprogramming the eclipse with this great tiktok scoop by Kaya Yurieff: TikTok’s growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it’s rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos.

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forever and always

Scoop: iPhone designer Jony Ive is in talks with VC firms including Emerson Collective & Thrive Capital to raise money for his new AI hardware company. Ive is working with Sam Altman on the new venture. theinformation.com/articles/jony-… w/ Jessica Lessin & Cory Weinberg

It’s true! Today is my last day at Reuters Breakingviews.

I am incredibly excited to be starting a new role soon as a financial analysis columnist at The Information, sharing my hot takes on tech companies large and small. (1/5)

nice to see nyc embracing sf’s biggest cultural export (earthquake twitter)

TikTok will keep pushing e-commerce despite grumbles from users, top shopping exec says at The Information’s Creator Economy Summit.

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From Erin Woo.

A good week to read one of the greatest essays ever written theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

yeah because the newspaper stops to check whether they’re true