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Today’s Rundown

• Apple and Foxconn are moving here, to Texas!
• Freshly-unemployed journalists are training LLMs
• Meta staffers gossiped about violating copyright
• Plus it’s award season, the Proud Boys are on the loose, and much much more…

Intro:

• Welcome to a BRAND NEW ALL NEWS “This Week in Startups.”
  • Intro Jason and News Reader Lon
• We’re expanding our social footprint, so if you’re not already following us all over the web, do it now!
  • @TWiStartups on X/Twitter
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  • Plus TikTok VERY SOON! It’s in the works!
• We also want to wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the late, great Steve Jobs, still an inspiration to innovators, CEOs, and turtle neck fans everywhere.
  • VIDEO: Jason and Steve at D3 [About 90 seconds]
    • This was the All Things Digital: D3 Conference in 2005
    • “Will you help companies like ours sell a podcast?”
      • Steve says “zing me an email with what you’ve got in mind?” and J answers “same email I always use?”

Big Topics:

• Apple pledges multibillion dollar investment
• Former Journalists Now Training AI Models