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Rani Molla11/15/24

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.”

Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads

Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads

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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Apple beats estimates on earnings and revenue

Apple reported second-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday.

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White House said to oppose Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to more companies

Anthropic is ready to invite a wider group of companies to gain access to Claude Mythos, the company’s powerful next-generation AI chatbot.

The tightly controlled model has been deemed something of a security risk by Anthropic itself, due to its ability to find thousands of software vulnerabilities and potentially be used for sophisticated cyberattacks.

About 50 companies have been given access to test the capabilities of the new model, and Anthropic wanted to expand that to 120, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is blocking the move out of concerns that the new technology could fall into the wrong hands, per the report.

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic was in talks to raise money with a $900 billion valuation — higher than its archrival in the AI chatbot world, OpenAI, which was recently valued at $852 billion.

White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model

White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model

About 50 companies have been given access to test the capabilities of the new model, and Anthropic wanted to expand that to 120, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is blocking the move out of concerns that the new technology could fall into the wrong hands, per the report.

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic was in talks to raise money with a $900 billion valuation — higher than its archrival in the AI chatbot world, OpenAI, which was recently valued at $852 billion.

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Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend more than $700 billion on capex this year

Big Tech’s big capital spending continues to surge even higher than the companies had previously expected.

Alphabet raised its 2026 capex outlook to between $180 billion and $190 billion, up from $175 billion to $185 billion. Meta increased its 2026 forecast to $125 billion to $145 billion, up from $115 billion to $135 billion. Microsoft, meanwhile, said it’s planning on spending $190 billion this calendar year, about $55 billion more than the FactSet analyst consensus. Amazon, the lone outlier, didn’t boost its capex forecast, keeping it at a cool $200 billion.

Combined, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend more than $700 billion on capex in 2026, nearly double what they spent last year and $100 billion more than they’d expected just last quarter, as they continue to build out the AI infrastructure to support their AI futures.

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Microsoft’s capex outlay this year would be enough to buy every outstanding share of Disney

CFO Amy Hood said on last night’s earnings call that the company will spend $190 billion on capex in 2026.

The number of people using Meta apps just fell for the first time in seven years

The company shed 20 million “daily active people” across its app family in the first quarter.

Meta Apps - Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads

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