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December 1, 2023, 7:25 PM
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Financial Times:
X accelerates its plan to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US-based marketing startup JumpCrew  —  Social media site accelerates plan to attract small businesses as billionaire owner battles big brands
Ina Fried / Axios:
Memo: OpenAI delays its GPT store until early 2024 after “a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy”; the company had planned to launch in November 2023  —  OpenAI will delay the launch of a GPT store until early next year, according to a memo to developers seen by Axios.
Charles Duhigg / New Yorker:
How Microsoft forged its OpenAI partnership, was blindsided by OpenAI's board firing CEO Sam Altman, and managed to get OpenAI to reinstate Altman  —  The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely.  Then OpenAI's board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
A profile of Apple's chip division, including interviews with its head Johny Srouji and Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus  —  WATCH NOW  —  Why Apple doubled down on the expensive custom chip business, edging out Intel and starting a trend  —  Apple's soaring stock price …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Phil Spencer says Microsoft has “no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo” after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target “every screen”  —  In our exclusive interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, we got a glimpse of the future of Xbox …
Bloomberg:
Phil Spencer says Microsoft is talking to partners to help launch a mobile gaming store to take on Apple's and Google's app stores, but offers no launch date
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple and Paramount have discussed an Apple TV+ and Paramount+ bundle that would cost less than subscribing to both streaming services separately  —  Streamers are increasingly joining with rivals to offer bundles that help attract and keep subscribers
Bloomberg:
Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit  —  - Amazon's Project Kuiper has been delayed by rocket setbacks  — Company also aims to use rockets from ULA, Bezos' Blue Origin
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
France's prime minister recommends government staff uninstall foreign apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid  —  Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees …
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
News outlets turning to Reddit amid X's decline face a dilemma over which subreddits to use; Business Insider faces criticism for posting in a snark subreddit  —  But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma
TechCrunch:
Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe's data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023  —  Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company's recent data breach.
Stacy Elliott / Decrypt:
Coinbase reports receiving 13,079 law enforcement requests from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, up 6% YoY and 3x since 2020; almost 50% were from the US  —  Almost half of the 13,079 law enforcement requests Coinbase received in 2023 came from the U.S., according to a new report.
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
An interview with Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau following the 10th anniversary of Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab on ChatGPT, AI in the metaverse, and more  —  In an exclusive interview leading up to the 10th anniversary of Meta's AI lab, LeCun reflects on the artificial intelligence boom …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google says RCS in Google Messages now has over 1B MAUs, and adds Photomoji, Voice Moods, Screen Effects, Custom Bubbles, Animated Emoji, and other features  —  First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are using RCS in Google Messages.
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:
Google updates Android, Wear OS, and Google TV devices, adding TalkBack AI-created image descriptions, more Live Caption languages, Assistant Routines, and more

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80%

Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

More News

Bloomberg:
An in-depth look at China's efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen's investment fund
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out “more advanced” automated moderation tools, along with moderation lists, which let users mute or block many users at once, user lists, more
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Telegram rolls out new features related to channels, including better discovery of similar channels, emoji customization for reactions, and stats for stories
Samyuktha Sriram / Unchained Crypto:
In a letter to two US Senators, Circle denies a report alleging the company helped fund Hamas and Hezbollah and has an “ongoing relationship” with Justin Sun
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve launches a Steam Link app on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, letting users more easily play VR games from their Steam library over 5GHz Wi-Fi

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tiger Global cut its portfolio companies' valuations in September 2023, like Superhuman by 45%, DuckDuckGo by 72%, Yuga Labs by 69%, and OpenSea by 94%
Marko Zivkovic / MacRumors:
Internal docs: Apple plans to include the Action button on the entire iPhone 16 lineup that would include a force sensor and “tact-switching functionality”
Martin Coulter / Reuters:
Google asks the UK CMA to take action against Microsoft, claiming the company's licensing practices unfairly discouraged customers from using rivals' services
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Apple releases emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to fix two zero-days “that may have been exploited”, reaching 20 zero-days patched in 2023
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 2023 Adversarial Threat Report
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta plans to launch Threads in Europe in December, the largest expansion since its July debut, offering a choice of using Threads without a profile
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