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December 1, 2023, 10:40 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
Platformer:
Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations  —  Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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
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
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
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
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Tests: Meta's recommendation systems promote underage-sex content on Instagram and Facebook Groups, despite Meta setting up a child-safety task force in June  —  The social-media company has stepped up enforcement, but its algorithms continue to promote problematic content
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages  —  Meta AI researchers announced on Thursday that they have developed a new suite of artificial intelligence models called Seamless Communication …
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
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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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are “working to build trust with Nick”

Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian's EIC says digital reader revenue rose 17% YoY to £125M in the year to March 31 and over 40% of revenue is from outside the UK, up from 8% in 2016

More News

Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
An interview with Guillaume Verdon, founder of stealth AI startup Extropic who is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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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