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Threads is testing topic feeds that will actually be in chronological order, for once

Threads is testing a “new way to create dedicated feeds for your favorite topics and profiles,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on the Twitter clone today.

A Threads spokesperson told The Verge custom feeds would contain a combination of posts from profiles and topics you select.

It sounds like Facebook groups for people who no longer use Facebook. Unlike the default “For You” part of Threads, which is getting ads next year, these feeds would be displayed in reverse chronological order. You can’t make these feeds the default.

Currently the feature is available to only a small number of people but will be rolling out to the rest of us “soon.”

It sounds like Facebook groups for people who no longer use Facebook. Unlike the default “For You” part of Threads, which is getting ads next year, these feeds would be displayed in reverse chronological order. You can’t make these feeds the default.

Currently the feature is available to only a small number of people but will be rolling out to the rest of us “soon.”

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Musk says “xAI Was Not Built Right” amid executive departures, Cursor hires

There’s been a lot of turnover lately at xAI, with numerous executive departures and, yesterday, news that the SpaceX-owned company was hiring two senior leaders from Cursor, an AI coding startup that’s raising funds at a $50 billion valuation.

The reason? “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” CEO Elon Musk posted on xAI-owned X yesterday, in response to a post about the Cursor hires. Earlier this month, Musk told a conference audience, “Grok is currently behind on coding.”

The news amounts to an admission of a reset inside xAI and an acknowledgment that the company is trailing AI peers like Anthropic and OpenAI in one of AI’s most commercially important applications: coding.

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War in the Middle East halts Meta’s undersea fiber project

Meta’s massive undersea cable project connecting Africa and the Middle East to Europe has run into an unexpected obstcle — not under the sea, but in the sky and land above: the war in the Middle East.

According to a report from Bloomberg, France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks — the company that is laying the cable — notified customers that it can no longer safely operate in the area.

The 2Africa project consists of 45,000 kilometer chain of undersea fiber optic cables that encircles Africa, and runs through the Red Sea, and up through the Gulf of Oman, where the Strait of Hormuz sits. Iran has declared the strait — a crucial chokepoint for oil and natural gas tankers — closed for traffic.

Meta is building the network in partnership with Bayobab, China Mobile,, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, WIOCC, and Center3.

The 2Africa project consists of 45,000 kilometer chain of undersea fiber optic cables that encircles Africa, and runs through the Red Sea, and up through the Gulf of Oman, where the Strait of Hormuz sits. Iran has declared the strait — a crucial chokepoint for oil and natural gas tankers — closed for traffic.

Meta is building the network in partnership with Bayobab, China Mobile,, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, WIOCC, and Center3.

25%

After Chinese antitrust regulators signaled they would probe Apple’s App Store practices earlier this year, the iPhone maker is now cutting its commission in the country from 30% to 25%.

Apple has been staging a comeback in China — which accounted for 18% of its revenue last quarter — driven by its iPhone 17 lineup and efforts to offset pricing pressures tied to memory chips.

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