How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation’s Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world (Wall Street Journal)

Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows  —  With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: on Tuesday, China’s internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs  —  Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on protests and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to bypass online controls

The Verge:
At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla’ AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid robot that he said utilizes the company’s AI software …

Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla  —  The 19.5 million shares sold this month follows earlier sales in April and August  —  Elon Musk sold almost $4 billion …

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TikTok’s efforts to cut ties with Beijing-based ByteDance have stumbled over hiring and retaining talent, as some key staff remain based in China  —  The short-video app is making big efforts to separate from Beijing-based ByteDance, but is still hiring staff in China for key functions

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Over 90 gameplay videos from Rockstar’s GTA VI leak online; the uploader claims they were behind last week’s Uber hack and have GTA V and VI source code  —  Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, appears to have leaked online.