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OpenAI to Establish New Tokyo Office, Tesla’s Workforce Reduction Impacts Thousands of Employees

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“Unleash Your Moderation Power with Ozone: The Revolutionary Service by Bluesky”

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The company’s vision for moderation is a stackable ecosystem of services, which is why it will start allowing users to install filters from independent moderation services on top of what Bluesky already requires. For example, someone could create a moderation service that blocks images of spiders on the network. Bluesky says installing filters from independent moderation services will be as easy as following another account. People running moderation services will be able to set custom labels and determine what they do. Moderation services aren’t tied to individual accounts, so multiple people can manage them together.

Creators on its TV app now have access to YouTube’s fresh channel pages.

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YouTube is changing the design for creators’ channels on the big screen, the comapny announced today. The update is rolling out to all creators today, but may take a few weeks to appear to all viewers, the comapny told TechCrunch. The changes impact the channel pages on TV only, it noted. Creators will likely respond positively to changes that help boost their subscriber numbers and better showcase their content on the big screen. The company is in competition with traditional TV and streamers like Netflix on TVs, but also with newcomers like TikTok, which launched its own TV app in late 2021.