Bloomberg: Samsung reports preliminary Q4 operating profit of ~$4.5B, vs. est. of ~$6.2B, and revenue of ~$51.7B, below est., due to hefty R&D and capacity expansion costs  —  – Korean company ratchets up push to catch up in high-end memory  — Samsung has ceded ground to SK Hynix in lucrative AI arena Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: In a statement with his family, Sam Altman denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister Ann in a lawsuit and says she faces “mental health challenges”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta’s surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor to genocide”  —  “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Meta’s fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked  —  Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward: Documents: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content  —  The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: Tencent repurchased 3.93M Hong Kong shares worth $193M on January 7, its largest buyback since April 2006, following its addition to a US blacklist  —  China’s most valuable company bought back 3.93 million Hong Kong-listed shares on Tuesday, the most since April 2006, Bloomberg-compiled data show. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will phase “civic content” back in, seemingly a reversal of earlier decisions against proactively recommending political content  —  As a part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fox News: Donald Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta’s “presentation was excellent”  —  EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump reacted to Meta’s move to end its fact-checking program on Facebook … Lees verder op Tech Meme