Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal: Sensor Tower: Threads’ DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads’ app declined to four mins, down from 19  —  Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Telegram launches Stories for its Premium users, letting users control who can see their stories and how long they last before disappearing  —  You can display them forever or make them disappear at various times up to 48 hours.  —  Telegram’s new Stories feature is here as promised … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tiger Global, Peak XV, and other investors ask India to reconsider its new 28% tax on online gaming as it will lead to a write-off of $2.5B and loss of 1M jobs  —  Tiger Global, DST Global, Peak XV, Steadview Capital, and Kotak Private Equity are among global and Indian investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: A look at Samsung’s and Texas Instruments’ chip fabs in Texas, as the state becomes a US chipmaking hub with six projects totaling $61B and creating 8K+ jobs  —  WATCH NOW  —  How Texas became the center of U.S. chipmaking  —  On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Makena Kelly / The Verge: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others make voluntary AI governance pledges to the White House, including cybersecurity investment and watermarking systems  —  The White House is bringing in AI’s top seven companies Friday to make a series of voluntary promises to protect users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit’s API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit  —  Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform’s API pricing changes. Lees verder op Tech Meme